Mission for Children's Health Africa

I have to take a minute to give my friend Immanuel a little plug. He is a young man who called me frantically a year or so ago. He is from Ghana and was working from Ghana to bring children into the US for badly needed medical care. Somehow he stumbled into the sticky quagmire of child trafficking for adoption and was already getting very uncomfortable with some of the common practices out there by some medical advocates and NGO's here in the states. He found Children's Chance Connecticut and discussed a few things with Dorita. She referred him to me since I have been the watchdog on this subject for so long. Anyhoo, we talked. I told him who was good at what cases, what to watch out for as far as shenanigans and and just in general a pep talk about not giving up on his mission of helping the children of Ghana. That conversation was the beginning of many since then.
Well, the economy in the US has continued to cool and while the US is very generous, we as a nation have our own needy now so money has dried right to a trickle. In addition, free medical services are just harder and harder to get. I told him all along that he could do much more effective work by bringing teams in to his country for the cases that could be done there and only referring out the most severe cases and then to refer them to Children's Chance since she has such good repor with her medical people and she has such superior surgeons.
Somewhere along the line, he came around to my way of thinking. Last fall, he had one too many close calls with children being treated as someone else's property and he called all his children home. Remember folks, these very poor uneducated people send their children here to be fixed and healed not given to some American family who falls in love with the child. It is imoral and in most cases illegal. He also did the math and decided it was much more economical to bring help to the people. He found a man from Ghana who is a surgeon doing work right there in the country out in the bush. (Of course) So together they have been able to help many, many more children.
I will post some pics soon, but in the meantime check out his website: www.mch-africa.org and if you have any medical supplies you can donate, please do. This group is legit and they really do need the help desperately.
By the way, Super 8 Imlay City, the soap, sheets and shampoo are a Godsend and will end up in Burkina Faso, Ghana and the Philippines before the supply runs out.