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Southern Sudan, like Sudan’s western region of Darfur, suffered a 22-year conflict and genocide that ended in 2005 with the signing of the Comprehensive Peace Agreement. During that time and even today Juba Teaching Hospital struggles to serve the sick, wounded and dying with very few resources.

They asked for mattresses. Of all the things a 500-bed hospital in Southern Sudan might need, the top of the hospital director’s list was mattresses; theirs are over 50 years old.  Juba Teaching Hospital serves the 6 million people that work the land in an area the size of France. It has a dual mission: to serve as the primary care facility for this population while training the next generation of nurses and physicians. This training is key to the success of Southern Sudan and the success of Southern Sudan may well be the key to peace and hope for Darfur. After a tour of Juba Teaching Hospital in May 2008, University of California San Francisco student group formed a partnership with MedShare to provide the hospital with medical books, equipment and supplies.  MedShare recently received a donation of 4,000 mattresses and so with your help, we hope to raise enough funds to ship 500 new mattresses to Juba Teaching Hospital.

This project is sponsored by UCSF student group, Health Alliance for Sudan, and by the San Francisco Bay Area Darfur Coalition.  MedShare needs your help to raise the $22,000 to ship a 40-foot container of mattresses and requested medical supplies and equipment to Juba Teaching Hospital in Southern Sudan.  By making a tax-deductible contribution today, you will help send health and hope to a country in great need. Click here to help Southern Sudan.

 

  Gifts made through the Critical Need Alert represent a gift to the entire mission. We use your gifts where they can do the most good by pooling them with the gifts of others to help transform entire communities. And, because you are helping MedShare save lives, your gift is tax deductible.