Where We Serve: Africa
IMEC has supplied hundred of hospitals in over seventy countries around the world. In 2007, IMEC helped doctors and nurses in African countries such as Chad, the Democratic Republic of Congo, Ghana, Kenya, and Zimbabwe.
Here is an example of the projects we've done in Africa:
Good Shepherd Ang’iya Dispensary & VCT Centre, Rongo, Kenya:
with Jack O’Leary and Kenya Medical Supplies
The Good Shepherd Ang’iya project began with an email from philanthropist Jack O’Leary to Sue Crawford at IMEC, in early 2007.
Mr. O’Leary, a successful businessman, has been doing charitable work in Kenya with the Archdioceses of Nairobi for many years, and has worked with IMEC on several other projects in the area. Dr. Crawford had been planning a visit to Kenya to check on the progress of some of our earlier projects in the region, and Mr. O’Leary asked her to visit the Good Shepherd Ang’iya Dispensary & VCT Centre in Rongo, a small clinic administered through the Archdioceses in Ang’iya parish.
The clinic serves the local population of over 350,000, 54% of whom live below the poverty line. Its small staff consists of nurse/midwife Sister Gaudencia Wanyonyi and her assistant, with the administrative aid of Sister Wilhemina Leistra and Father Michael Odiwa. On average they serve 80 adults and 91 children a month, providing vaccinations,
pre- and post-natal care and other basic medical services.
When Dr. Crawford visited the clinic for assessment in May, 2007, she found a devoted 
staff working in a basic 5 room facility, with treatment and dressing rooms with very little furniture, no lab equipment and no working refrigerator for the pharmacy. There was no proper delivery table; instead, a regular wooden table in the corner of an office was used for labor and births. The Kenyan government had just helped them build a 6 room annex onto the main clinic, but it was completely empty of medical quipment and furniture.
Dr. Crawford finished her assessment, returned to the United States, and IMEC’s volunteers went to work. By the end of July, the shipment was on a ship headed for Kenya. Six months later, a truck pulled up to the clinic door. On the trailer behind it was a container filled with medical equipment and supplies. The Sisters and Father Odiwa gathered local villagers to help unpack the container, and they could barely contain their joy. By the end of 
the day, they had unloaded two full patient rooms, a medical library, two exam rooms, a laboratory, a full classroom, a delivery room and a nursery, and had begun to set them up.
With this equipment, the Good Shepherd Ang’iya Dispensary & VCT Centre can now serve its community much more effectively, thanks to the volunteers here at IMEC and the generosity of our donors.
“Life and work is much better with the equipments you sent to us and l can never thank you enough. It is really very helpful to have the basics to use on patients and we have been able to set up delivery room with the beautiful beds and now it is much easier to handle deliveries and then the mothers even have beds to rest on after delivery...” -Sr. Gaudencia