Oxford University Electives 2018

Oxford University Electives 2018

2018 sees our busiest program of medical electives with seven from Oxford University spending time with SMMMS during March-May. This year builds on a successful last few years with our Doctors for the Simien Mountains program offering both SMMMS, as well as Debark...

Report of visit – 21st May to 27th May

The object of our short visit was to revisit the two Government Health Centers to ascertain the improvements and suitability of the Health Centers to receive our BSc Midwives graduating in July. Brian and I were very happy to be accompanied by Dr. Lil from Berlin...

SMMMS Trip Report January/February 2017

The main objective of this trip to Ethiopia was to choose with our stakeholders suitable Government Health Centers to deploy our five midwives who will graduate in June 2017. Addis – On arrival in Addis we were met by Ahmed and taken to MSD’s office for a general...

August 2016

It’s been a busy year so far…we made a decision to change our in-country partners and have now signed a contract with Mahibere Hiwot for Social Development to take care of our in-country interests (http://mahiberehiwot.org/). This is proving to have been a good...

December 2015

At the end of December Wendy, Brian and Hugh travelled to Ethiopia to review project progress. During this time they were accompanied by Hawlt, the SMMMS in-country medical coordinator Upon arrival in Debark they went to the Hospital to view the first aid course being...