Africa Yes! Raises $1000 for Ebola Prevention Supplies

    Our Ebola awareness event on Saturday night raised over $1000 for supplies and other support!  That money is already on its way to the village via a bank wire transfer.  Many thanks to everyone who worked so hard to make the night a success -- Juliet and Braima put in many hours of preparation, and Stella Kirkendale was an outstanding special guest for our Q&A. 
     A case of Ebola was reported this week in Koya Chiefdom, the first there and the first to cross the Moa River.  Koya Chiefdom is next to 
Tunkia Chiefdom.  The village affected has been quarantined for 21 days.

    The Chiefdom Speaker for Tunkia, Sheku Kanneh, second in command to the Paramount Chief, has asked Fodei, Munir, and their teams to 
expand their outreach to the entire chiefdom.  Because there are more than 70 villages in the chiefdom, the teams will not be able to cover them all, but they will add more villages to their original 19 and continue to add as many as possible.  According to Fodei, soldiers are going village-to-village in the 
southern portion of Tunkia Chiefdom, closest to Zimmi, so the Gbeworbu teams will concentrate on the central and north-central areas at present.

    Fodei is giving each village they visit two bags of rice as a starting point for stockpiling food.  Most villages are offering the rice for sale to their villagers and then will use the proceeds to buy more.  This process will continue as long as food is available, so that each household can create a stockpile of its own.  Fodei was able to buy 22 bags with the money we sent, and has asked for 22 more.  This has been done.
     There will be a national lockdown starting tomorrow, September 18th, and lasting until Sunday the 21st.  
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