MELQOSH MISSION INTERNATIONAL INC

Melqosh is proactively addressing the aforementioned social malaise through medical intervention, the organisation is on a raise against time to drastically reduce the high mortality rates amongst the war victims.

Through educational and vocational empowerment, our beneficiaries will be socio-economically equipped to combat poverty, unemployment and illiteracy.

The vision is to implement development strategies for education, health, trade and employment specifically for physically challenged and war afflicted amputees/ war victims. Our mission is to render life-changing services through our various missions to and projects in Sierra Leone. With access to these services, the beneficiaries will have coveted opportunities that we all deserve and a chance to articulate in productive activities, thereby becoming successful, not only for themselves but for the development of our global village.

Our strategies are executing Mobile Healthcare systems wherein we can reach our beneficiaries, treat them and render free medicines.

Our mission has pledged to render Restorative Justice through its various projects. We are on a race against time to save and elongate the lives of these Blood Diamond victims through medical interventions, which we initiated in 2012.

Our Corporate Partner Scarlet Haven sponsored 100 children into Schools this September 2017 with a donation of $34,000. This scholarship solidified our Educational Sponsorship Programme; doubling the number of students we sponsored last academic year. Moreover, 50% of the beneficiaries will be assimilated into a boarding school to curb teenage pregnancies and equip the young girls to reach their zenith.

Melqosh also aims to raise funds to sponsor an addition of 200 children.

Our charity reached a significant landmark by establishing the first IT Academy and Supplementary School in 2014

Also, as a result of our interventions during Ebola, none of our beneficiaries contracted Ebola between 2014-16.

Beneficiaries of our Educational Sponsorship Programme are now graduates. Some of our young war amputees are now in Higher Education like Universities.

Many of the beneficiaries of our Medical Missions now have better health. To date, we have executed multiple medical missions in Western Area, Lungi, Makeni, Bo and Magburaka. In February 2019, we undertook several medical missions treating 200 war victims in three Districts. We rendered Diabetic, Blood Pressure and Malarial checks, much needed physiotherapy and chiropractic sessions, Health Talks and free medicines for different forms of ailment.

Our mission worked partnership with TOSHPA- The Organisation of Sierra Leone Health Professional Abroad. Medics from the United Kingdom, United States and Qatar volunteered their services and travelled to Sierra Leone in January 2019 to treat Blood Diamond Victims living in the Western Area, Bombali and Tonkolili Districts.

Chiropractic and Physiotherapy
In the course of our various medical missions in the previous years, we identified that war amputees needed musco-skeletal adjustments. Many of their spines had shifted as a result of their amputations and consequent misalignment of their body frames.
Our charity contacted a Chiropractor and Physiotherapist, Dr Fidel Goldson who has several practices in Florida. Dr Goldson successfully adjusted the spines of 200 war victims, this was a landmark achievement for our Non profit as this was not only much needed, but historic as no specialist has done this specific treatment for war victims in Sierra Leone.

Mission for War Rape Victims
We also executed one of most sombre missions in almost 11 years of mission work in Sierra Leone.
Our medical mission was to provide counselling and free Medicare to 30 war wounded women at Grafton whom we met for the first time. Their stories are still echoing in our hearts.
Majority of these women were gang raped by the war rebels, some of these women had big sticks barbarically shoved into their private parts and they are still riddled with vagina infections even after 20 yrs. Some of these women were gang raped simultaneously through their vagina and anus, apologies for being explicit.
We were able to treat them with an assortment of strong antibiotics specifically for sexual diseases and infections. A three- fold medication was provided to all of them-

Education
We already have outputs of progress, some of our Educational beneficiaries are now College graduates, this is evidence of our making progress. Young girls who had gone into prostitution to put food on their families' table are now into small enterprise- owners and are doing well; courtesy of our Empowerment Initiative of rendering small business start-up funds to these girls.