MIRACLE OF HELP USA INC

The region of Sierre Leone where MOH is working is primarily a cocoa and rice farming area. Over 2000 rice farmers have approahced MOH to create a fish farm to help integrate tilapia and catfish as a second cash crop into their rice fields. Integrating fish in the rice fileds provides nutrition to the rice, destroys pests, and increases the rice yield. The fish also eat the eggs of the mosquitos that cause malaria which are laid on the standing swamp water. MOH will be tracking the project and local malaria rates weekly and monthly in the pilot villages working on the finsh and rice project. Early in 2024 MOH acquired 3 abandoned professionally dug fish breeding ponds and has started the process of growing tilapia and catfish for release into the farmers fields. The initial project is four ponds in four rice fields. This will expand to 30 ponds as each member of the pilot project digs a pond in their field. If successful, the project will be

Women and children have very limited access to health care in Sierra Leone. MOH runs a monthly pop-up clinic for three days with two doctors, two lab techs, a midwife and five nurses for free care for men, women and children. All medication, medical supplies and food are free to patients. Patients attend from thirty-five villages and seven chiefdoms, often walking three-four days to be seen. The catcment population is 35,000. MOH runs a free surgery program - performing two surgeries per month and more as funds allow. MOH runs two malnutritian programs, certified by the SL government for severe and mederate acute malnutrition, which have tested over 36 patients. 2024 saw the creation of a psychiatry clinic for an initial population of 27 patients.