Andrea_O

Yes. I almost lost all hopes in October 2014. We health workers were checking on each other everyday, and it was horrible knowing that we were falling too fast to the disease. it was horrible: we were like military cadets being trained with real riffles and live bullets. We were learning about Ebola in the midst of the most deadliest outbreak ever.

One of the biggest challenges is working with less resources than you need, so you know you can't help everyone.

This is an area worth venturing. You probably will serve as a trail blazer. it will not be an easy task of course, and the impact of your work may not be readily seen. But believe me, you will be one of the very few selfless persons who are not seeking direct credits for what they do. As a word of advise, it will be good to commit to long-term work. You will make great impact after you learn the culture and traditions of the people, and meet them on their level.

Thank you. There are lots of local agencies that are looking for donations and the funds do buy us the things we need in the field. My partner agency effect:hope is the one who bought us the items we needed like the the protective suits and they work with us to go to the local government to create strategic change plans. Right now we are working on an initiative that will address all tropical disease prevention and treatment in one government policy which will be the first of it's kind. It is a step forward to rebuilding out health care system. If you want to donate to effect:hope you can here: http://effecthope.org/

I think the media didn't overemphasize the situation. Personally, I worked in hard to reach areas that never had media coverage. One of the communities I worked in was called John Logan Town that had very deplorable roads and no access to internet, and communication. The people there who suffered and died of Ebola were never covered by the media. The impact of Ebola was devastating, the health care system is still weak.