Why

Strengthen the healthcare services provided by St. Theresa Hospital by expanding the facility’s infrastructure, training staff, and donating equipment.

What

In South Sudan, mothers and newborns die at higher rates than almost anywhere else in the world. Disease spreads quickly, and malaria and HIV cause an alarming number of illnesses and deaths. Amid these challenges, professional healthcare is not just hard to access—it’s also less trusted. Instead, people turn to local healers, often with poor outcomes.

St. Theresa Hospital, with its maternity and children’s wards and infectious disease programs, is a beacon of hope in Nzara County. Since 2009, we have helped St. Theresa Hospital to expand and improve its healthcare services—reaching more people and building trust in healthcare. We have expanded the hospital’s infrastructure, creating a surgical suite, maternity ward, and neonatal care clinic. With better facilities available for patients, it’s easier to encourage women to receive antenatal care and to deliver with a skilled birth attendant.

We also provide in-person mentoring and training to the hospital’s staff and community health workers, increasing their ability to provide high-quality pregnancy and newborn care. Healthcare workers gain confidence—and so do the patients they serve. To make sure the hospital has the critical supplies it needs, we donate equipment, including the technical equipment for a blood bank and four-wheel drive ambulances to reach critically ill patients in remote areas.

Our work at St. Theresa Hospital continues. By increasing access to quality obstetric, neonatal, and pediatric care, we will save more lives.