06 Oct 2017 MCC Telecom donates surveillance cameras to the Saint Benedict Menni Mental Health Center
Gipuzkoa company MCC Telecom has joined the group of collaborators and donors of We Are Like You project by giving a set of 15 surveillance cameras and a LCD screen to be installed at the Saint Benedict Menni Mental Health Center in Monrovia, Liberia, where women with mental illness are attended....
15 Sep 2017 The Chillida Leku Museum hosts again a charity concert of Juan Carlos Irizar for We Are Like You
For the second time –first was in 2015–, Donostia-San Sebastián Chillida Leku Museum was the venue last Saturday for a charity concert of musician, composer and director Juan Carlos Irizar for the We Are Like You project. This time he was accompanied by Iñaki Revuelta and Marian Larrea, whoplayed and sang different pieces and performed as a trio with Irizar to finish the musical evening.
28 Aug 2017 A team from Aita Menni Hospital arrives to Monrovia to start preparing the assistance activity
On the occasion of the next start of the Step Down Unit program, sponsored by the Ministry of Health, the National Catholic Health Council and the Saint Benedict Menni Health Center, a team of Aita Menni Hospital composed by its CEO, Mikel Tellaeche, psichiatrist Marta Menéndez and nurse Cecilia Alvarez moved to Monrovia to start with the preparations prior to the beginning of the assistance activity.
27 Aug 2017 The Aita Menni Hospital and the Saint Benedict Menni Health Center sign a brotherhood agreement
Aita Menni Hospital from Spain and the Saint Benedict Menni Health Center of Monrovia, Liberia, signed past August 15th an agreement with sets formal bonds of brotherhood between both centers and will be the cornerstone for the launching of the new Saint Benedict Menni Mental Health Center and the improving of services at the current Saint Benedict Menni Health Center.21 Jun 2017 The We Are Like You project, in images
Images that tell the story of We Are Like You and the people who are making it possible. ...
23 Mar 2017 The Basque Government grants a 180,000 USD aid to We Are Like You
The Basque Agency for Cooperation for Development recently granted a 180,756 USD aid to the We Are Like You project, aimed to improve the care of mental health and the social-sanitary environment in Monrovia, Liberia.
07 Jan 2017 The Saint Benedict Menni Health Center will have a new solar power system
The Saint Benedict Menni Health Center in Monrovia, Liberia, has started procedures to set up a system for solar power production and accumulation, which will allow for covering most of the energy needs in the compound along with the current diesel generator. Now, all buildings in Sisters Hospitallers´ facility in Pipeline –Health Center, Sisters´ House, warehouse and guest house, and Step Down Unit– get electric power from a diesel generator which is started only two times a day, due to high fuel costs. The rest of the time, facilities can´t get energy supply, because the current solar panels system is damaged and obsolete.
20 Dec 2016 A delegation from Hospital Aita Menni visits Monrovia
A group of representatives of Spain´s Hospital Aita Menni visited Monrovia from December 2nd to 10th to take part in the 50th Anniversary of the arrival of Sisters Hospitallers to Liberia. The delegation was headed by Sr. Monserrat Esparza, Superior of the Community of the Hospital, and included Aita Menni´s CEO and Head of Health Programs at the Saint Benedict´s Menni Health Center in Monrovia Mikel Tellaeche, responsible of the Voluntary Service Egoitz Zabala, psychologist Macarena Aspiunza, occupational therapist Selene Vélez and volunteers Amaia Ribera and Cecilia Álvarez.
19 Dec 2016 Sisters Hospitallers celebrate the 50th anniversary of their arrival to Liberia
It was December 26th when the first community of Sisters Hospitallers was settled in Virginia, an outer area of Monrovia, Liberia. Four women, four sisters, brought the seed of hospitality to that fertile land that soon embraced them. They were Sr. María Jesús Núñez (R.I.P.), Sr. Carmen Lasa, Sr. Consuelo Zazpe and Sr. Clotilde Elvira who, sheltering orphans and abandoned children, embodied those words from that our founder María Josefa Recio said to the first sisters then, and now to all of us, "be charitable with them... and be like real mothers for them".