Our Mission
Pan-African Rural Health & Social Services, PRHeSS, is dedicated to providing quality health care services, improving sanitation, promoting sustainable agricultural pracitices and promoting human empowerment through social and economic development in the Jong chiefdom in rural Sierra Leone. PRHeSS strives to restore hope and dignity to the people we serve.
You can make a difference and your contributions are transformative.
Every donation goes directly to sustaining our mission. Your Monthly Donations are urgently needed to sustain funding for our medical and support staff with salaries and supplies.
Our story
PRHeSS Begins
Dr. Sam and Mary Kormoi founded PRHeSS in 2007. Their homeland, Sierra Leone, had been decimated by an eleven-year civil war that ended in 2004. The infrastructure of the nation was almost non-existent and the catastrophic effect on its citizens was devastating. Dr. Sam and Mary ardently desired to bring restoration and wholeness to the villages they once called home. Healthcare, agricultural sustainability and sanitation were their top priorities. They worked diligently to build trust and restore hope to the people in Fallay Wujah, Jong Chiefdom.
The impetus to build a hospital began with two tragic events that had a profound effect on Sam and Mary. Over a decade ago, a pregnant young woman bled to death on the roadside grass giving birth to twin sons, having no access to medical care. In the summer of 2018, Fatmata Swaray died of condroblastic osteosarcoma, a type of bone cancer. Despite efforts to bring her to the US for medical care, she died before she could receive treatment. Her illness would not have been fatal if she lived in a country with competent healthcare. The dream of a local hospital, able to provide medical assistance to anyone in need, was to become a reality.
PRHeSS Today
Through the devotion of Dr. Sam, Mary and the many friends of PRHeSS, there is now a 48- bed hospital, diagnostic center, guest house, educational building, and mortuary. There are three wells, supplying clean water for the hospital and the village and ten outdoor toilet facilities improving sanitation.
The agricultural program features a five-acre palm oil plantation, and produces cassava, rice, cocoa, and cashews. PRHeSS also has a cassava processing operation that provides a nutrient dense food source for the village population.
PRHeSS endeavors to support initiatives that provide economic stability fostering the health and well - being of village residents.
Future PRHeSS Initiatives
PRHeSS is striving to :
Install new solar batteries to stabilize generated power source.
Establish a nursing education program using teleconferencing with medical consultation and diagnostics through teleconferencing with US medical consultants.
Strengthen and expand farming program by procuring a tractor.
Obtain an all-wheel drive vehicle to transport volunteers and patients to our hospital safely.
Help Us Save Lives!
Every donation has an incredible impact! Your generosity supports our health care workers, purchases medicines and medical supplies and maintains our hospital.
