West Africa Region
Burkina Faso, Ghana, Nigeria, Sierra Leone, Liberia, Benin, Senegal, Gambia, Ivory Coast, Mali, Morocco
Project Profiles
Please choose one of the links below for more detailed information on the range and variety of development work that some of the missionaries we provide support for are involved in.
- Water and Sanitation: Fr Billy Sheridan, Nigeria
- Income Generation: Sr Teresa McKeon, Sierra Leone
- Primary Healthcare: Sr. Mercie Lae, Nigeria
- Primary Healthcare: DREAM Sr. Geraldine Henry , Nigeria
- The Environment: Sr. Maire McGann, Nigeria
- Capacity Building: Sr. Ann Kelly, West Africa, Guinea
- Basic Education: Br. Rupert O'Sullivan, Presentation Brothers, Ghana
- Basic Education: St. Louis Nursery, Nigeria
- Water and Sanitation: Sr. Nora McNamara, Nigeria
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Samples of the regional range and variety of development work of missionaries
The Gambia
(Primary Healthcare)
Provision of quality primary health care to the vulnerable and
marginalised in remote villages by running a mobile clinic in The
Gambia. Awareness education sessions/health talks on malaria,
diarrhoea and HIV/AIDS were given in the clinics, 14,370 patients
were treated, and 4000 were given vaccinations and 1000 vaccinations
to those in antenatal.
Nigeria
(Basic Education)
Part funding for construction of school for 45 young children (aged
3-7) with hearing impairment.
Sierra Leone
(Basic Education)
Skills training for self reliance, literacy, numeracy and business
training to improve quality of life and access to higher learning
for young women.
Benin
(Water and Sanitation)
Provision of equipment and training of well-digging teams through
supervised well digging to re-digging old wells and new ones provide
basic drinking water supply in established villages but also for new
communities.
