Wednesday, September 30, 2009

Atoifi Adventist Hospital

About 30 people from Australia arrived in Atoifi as a Fly 'n Build team to help primeraly to reroof the hospital. The old roof was partly rosted through! Atoifi Adventist Hospital is the only remaining mission hospital in the south pacific! It was a privilige to visit that place and to help! Once before this hospital was the number one hospital in the whole Solomon Islands but after years of neglect we saw also sad conditions. But the doctors and nurses do there very best to serve "God and Humanity" and that has been truely a blessing for the kwaio people in supplying medical help and with that finding a way for the entrance of the gospel!
Atoifi Hospital with the surrounding buildings. This is the most sofisticated village with even a road, buildings built by bricks and electricity twice a day!
Atoifi is sourrounded by numerous coconut palms. Makes always a refreshing drink :)
Atoifi Adventist Hospital, founded in 1966.
Our first Sabbath in the Solomon Islands
group shoot of the eastward team :)
the old and rusty roof
putting new sheets on
it was quite hot :)

A little boy with malaria
John one of the workers in the laboratory
a blood sample, ready to go under the microscope

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