International Efforts - Africa
Sierra Leone
In February 2004, Mrs. Donna Maurer of Norfolk, Nebraska, traveled to eastern Sierra Leone, West Africa, with a team of mission volunteers from Mission Opportunities Short Term (M.O.S.T.) Ministries of Ann Arbor, Michigan. They went to Sierra Leone to conduct an eyeglass clinic in the remote Kono Region where civil war had raged.
This is where Orphan Grain Train had sent a semi-load of relief supplies to civil war refugees in November 2002. The supplies were sent to the Lutheran Church of Sierra Leone for distribution among refugees who had fled from the rebels for over 100 miles. When she volunteered for Sierra Leone, Mrs. Maurer did not know that her team would meet these aid recipients. They came to say “Thank you!”
