APM Partners with MESA to transport Medical Equipment Nigeria
MESA (Medical Equipment Supplies and Aid-Sharing) is a nonprofit of volunteers gathering and dispensing excess medical equipment and supplies to developing countries around the world. Their passion is to alleviate suffering around the world through the giving of medical supplies and other aid. These supplies are given to organizations and people in countries that are capable of dispensing as well as sustain medical aid to the local people. APM (Africa Partners Medical) is partnering with MESA to assist in the transport of medical supplies to Nigeria.
Dr. Simon, Aron Boesl, and Mrs. Gail Simon sorting donated supplies for Nigeria
About 2 years ago Dave and Gail teamed up with Aron and Rose Boesl and others. Aron and Rose have had years of experience in sending donated medical supplies globally but predominately to Africa and are a valuable resource to the Nigeria project. Thus we continue to collect, sort, count, crate and label voluminous amounts of medical supplies and plan to send a 40 foot shipping container to Nigeria in the near future. The Simons continue to be involved with the Le Pan Initiatives and the medical community in Jos, Nigeria. A clinic through Project C.U.R.E. is planned for February 2022 at Le Pan Medical Center. Medical providers from the United States will partner with Nigerian medical personnel to provide primary care services in this rural community, including immunizations, education in hygiene, training local birth attendants in the evidence-based principles of the Helping Babies Survive, and treatment and diagnosis of medical conditions to those who come to the clinic.
Read our Nigeria 2021 fundraising letter.
Dave and Gail Simon became involved with Le Pan Health and Wellness Initiative in 2014 through their friends Dr. Daniel and Abiola Mwanmut, retired doctor and nurse, respectively. Daniel was born in Wubel, a village in the Chakfem District, a group of 12 villages located in central Nigeria. As the Mwanmuts approached retirement, they decided to use a portion of their retirement funds to build the first health care clinic in this impoverished rural community of subsistence farmers. Dave and Gail raised funds to send donated medical supplies and equipment from Project C.U.R.E. The Le Pan Medical Center opened in 2015 and is now fully operational and functioning.
More recently, the Simons partnered with other generous donors to purchase and ship The Village Drill, a manually operated water drill designed specifically for developing countries, to the Mwanmuts in Nigeria. Clean water is needed to address preventable diseases and illnesses, as well as high mortality rates in the Chakfem District, especially among children. The Mwanmuts hosted a training on this drill in February 2020, which the Simons attended along with 17 trainees. Two successful water wells were dug. Plans are now being developed to drill wells in each of the 12 villages of the Chakfem District.
Well drilling training in Nigeria