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A Freetown Hospital’s Fight to Save Mothers and How One Shipment of Supplies Could Help

July 7, 2026 | Project C.U.R.E

Clinic in Sierra Leone that is being helped by Project C.U.R.E.

On the day Project C.U.R.E.'s assessor arrived at Divine Solutions Medical Centre in Freetown, mothers lined up at the makeshift clinic to immunize their babies, standing in the heat for as long as it took, no fans or air conditioning to cool them as the facility lacks electricity. They responded to a medical call, while Deema Coomber, a pastor and elder in her community, responded to a call of another kind: to help her community.

In 2006, Coomber opened a small clinic to respond to a maternal and infant mortality crisis she saw unfolding around her. Two years later, the Sierra Leonean government took notice, designating her clinic an official health post. As patient demand grew, so did the facility. Today, the hospital stands just down the street from the original clinic, which is still open, still busy, still caring for the community's most vulnerable.

Divine Solutions operates as a Christian ministry, providing care, free of charge to patients who couldn’t otherwise afford it. The Ministry of Health pays staff salaries, but nearly everything else — from latrines to delivery wards — has been built through the sheer determination of a staff willing to pool their own funds. Today, they’re saving to build a multilevel maternity ward because the current delivery unit is so crowded that mothers have given birth on the floor.

Walk through Divine Solutions and you'll find a facility running almost entirely on resourcefulness. The operating theater sits nearly bare, with a single worn and splitting table for surgery. The laboratory has the space, but not the equipment, to function. The wooden beds in the maternity ward are better suited to a family home than a delivery room. Exam tables and IV poles have long outlived their usefulness.

And still, the team delivers care. They deliver hope. They deliver the kind of steady, faithful presence a community depends on when there is nowhere else to turn.

Partnerships Provide Means, Solutions

Divine Solutions doesn't stand alone. Wan Fambul Foundation, which means "One Family" in the local Krio language, has been a partner to the hospital for years. Founded by Princess Ngawojah Cole and Melissa Spillman, Wan Fambul cares for orphaned children across Sierra Leone, and Divine Solutions is where those children receive their medical care. In turn, the foundation helps to support the hospital, connecting donors to this meaningful work.

A fully equipped operating room would mean families no longer have to fundraise desperately for surgeries at expensive private hospitals while their loved ones wait in pain. A functioning laboratory would mean diagnoses happen on-site, not somewhere else, sometime later. Maternity equipment would mean no more mothers giving birth on the floor, and a staff whose tireless work finally has the tools to match their dedication.

This is precisely the kind of need Project C.U.R.E. exists to meet. Not because a hospital lacks vision or willingness — Divine Solutions has both in abundance — but because vision and willingness alone can't stock an operating room or equip a lab. That takes partnership.

How You Can Help

Wan Fambul Foundation is now working to fund a container bound for Divine Solutions Medical Centre. One C.U.R.E. cargo container could transform maternity care, open a functioning laboratory, and equip an operating room for a community that has been doing everything right with almost nothing to work with.

Project C.U.R.E. delivers health and hope, one container at a time. This is your invitation to be part of the next one. Whether that means supporting this container financially, or one day joining our team as an assessor in the field — either way, you'll be standing alongside a clinic, a foundation, and a community who have already shown the world what determination looks like.

Assessments are a way for us to ensure that each container is customized to the exact needs of the hospital. Keep assessors traveling here: https://give.projectcure.org/campaign/782888/donate

 

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