Projects
2024
In 2020-2022, Haven of Rest commissioned and dedicated a 2-floor classroom complex within the premises of the Experiential Christian Ministry in Adonkia (Sierra Leone). This building is used for the promotion of education and training of children within the community.
In July 2024, the HoR revisited the Adonkia community with a multi professional team comprising of individuals with different skills and from diverse backgrounds. The focus for our activities this year included:
• Community Health Outreach. At this well attended event, many members of this community received with gratitude vital health checks, deworming programs, health talks, treatment of various serious conditions, onward referral for major and minor operations etc.
• Inauguration of a Farmers Club.
• Construction and completion of the ground floor of a vocational training hub for the young adults and adults of this deprived community. This will be a One Stop zone where they can be empowered to be independent contributors to the wellbeing of their community. Various skills will be taught such as bookkeeping, dressmaking, carpentry, subsistence farming, parenting, carpentry, baking and much more.
2021
HOR’s Project 2021 was to complete the refurbishment of a building block on the grounds of Onwe General Hospital. This was a follow-on to the 2019 HoR medical outreach that was aimed at 5 communities around this hospital. The outreach was achieved by the HoR team of medical practitioners in collaboration with Dr Ben Ababio-Danso, and medical teams from the St Michael's Hospital Catholic Hospital (Pramso) and the Onwe Government Hospital. Onwe is based in the Ejisu Municipal, a district in the Ashanti region of Ghana. Originally, the refurbished structure was designed to be completed in 2011, but the processes stalled and the structure began to fall apart. An appeal was made to Haven of Rest in 2019 by concerned community leaders, care staff and families within the communities for provision of a fully functioning maternal and child care unit. This aligned with our objective to promote health. As such, with kind gestures from our supporters, HoR started work on this project in 2020 (in spite of the challenges of the COVID-19 restrictions. The goal was to complete and equip a fit-for-purpose 12 bedded maternity block. This project was completed in the Spring of 2022 and is now functioning at its full capacity. A team travelled in the summer of the same year to meet the hospital management team and the community leaders. This new unit now also functions as a referral centre for maternity services within the region.
2020
In 2020 HOR, in collaboration with Experiential Christian International Ministries (a Sierra Leone based charity) took on a building project in Sierra Leone. The main objective was to build a multi-storey classroom block in Adonkia. This is in alignment with one of our core objectives - promotion of education.
The administrative processes commenced ran from 2019 through 2021. The project was successfully completed and the classrooms are now in use. Haven of Rest with a team of our supporters travelled to Freetown in July 2022. It was an awesome sight to see the transformation within the school premises. We were delighted to be part of the dedication assembly as we met the community leaders, pupils and school staff.
2019
Haven of Rest charitable train moved to the West African countries of Ghana and Nigeria. The charity funded an electronic library for a University in Nigeria. In Ghana, we provided funding for much needed heart surgery for two young children. This was achieved through the Nii Okai Heart Surgery Foundation. We donated the Optical Coherence Tomography device (essential ophthalmology equipment) to the Opthalmology Department of the St Michael Hospital in Pramso. The mission then moved on to rural OnweDistrict. In partnership with the medical team at the General hospital, we executed a robust and highly successful medical mission.
2018
Mission to Kenya in 2018 took us from Nairobi to different towns like Murang’a, Machakos and Kisumu. Haven of Rest funded a Chicken farm for a charity in Murang’a, provided rehabilitative equipments and beds for a disabled children’s home in Machakos and constructed a water project in Kisumu. The water project started initially as a borehole but morphed into a water tower from which safe water was piped to 5 neighbouring villages. The charity’s team of medical practitioners also carried out a medical mission in which thousands were treated in Kisumu. Pupils from local secondary schools benefited from major deworming programs and health talks during this medical outreach. Many were seen our medical practitioners and received free treatments for conditions like malaria, typhoid fever, worm infestations, diabetes, high blood pressure, childhood diseases etc.
Many others flocked into the tent dedicated for much needed prayers, emotional and spiritual support.
2017
In July 2017, Haven of Rest’s outreach was in KenGanda – this was a mission outreach that covered both Kenya and Uganda. We supported 3 children charities in Kenya and carried out a medical mission in Uganda.
2016
Haven of Rest’s benevolent activities moved to the continent of Asia in 2016. The team carried out a week long mission trip in July 2016 to Sri Lanka. We built a 3-bedroom house for a family of 7 adults that were living in a shed and also set up a fishing business for another family in Badullah Sri Lanka. These are people that are still suffering from the effects of 26 years’ civil war that ravaged the country.
2015
In the same year 2015, Haven of Rest also sponsored a heart surgery through Nii Okai Heart Surgery Foundation in Ghana – we are indeed sheltering the hurting from all storms of life
2014
In July 2014, we undertook a week long medical mission to the village of Chitsotso in Zimbabwe. It was a mission to remember. A multi-disciplinary team of doctors, nurses, social workers, accountants and pharmacists followed us from UK to Zimbabwe. Thousands of people from Chitsostso and other neighbouring villages benefitted from the mission. We also erected a communal borehole in the village centre. This provided access to safe water supply to the people of Chitsotso and the neighbouring 16 villages
2013
In 2013 we completed The Uganda Orphanage Project where we built cottages for orphans of Mercy Child Care Orphanage. It was a joy to put smiles on the faces of those lovely children.
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