Day 2: ​Mobile Medical Clinic and CRC Alumni Meeting

Day 2: Mobile Medical Clinic and CRC Alumni Meeting

7/3/2025

Today we went to Fengehun, a village outside of Bo. We were welcomed with music and dancing! People were screened for malaria and HIV and if they tested positive, were given medication. Pregnant women were educated about pre-natal care and examined - listening for their baby’s heart beat. People came from several adjoining villages, some arriving before 6 AM. The new bishop and other UMC church officials attended and helped. Lives are being saved!

Fengehun Village is in the Village Partnership Program. When a village is accepted into the Village Partnership Program, one of the commitments that they are agreeing to is a three year commitment to coming up with an idea of how to become self sustaining. Each villages leaders get together and come up with ideas of how they can become self sustaining, which then are brought to the Village Parternship team who brings in experts in whichever area (whether it be agriculture or fishing or Palm oil processing or whatever they have come up with) to assess if it is actually a viable means of supporting themselves. We got to see the beginnings of a palm oil processing centre, the result of community collaboration.

We got to attend a CRC alumni meeting in the afternoon. It was great to see a number of the “kids” and how they have grown up! Some have gone to university and are now employed by the church or other organizations that are doing good - so encouraging to see how they are passing it on and helping others! One woman who has chosen to be a Christian is married to a Muslim - another example of how easily people accept one another and value the relationship between each other with mutual respect and love.