Dr Chris Hena is a blessing to all of those that she serves. Her heart is for the women of Liberia. She has dedicated her life to making quality healthcare accessible which has improved the lives of women and babies making for stronger families. She has been in the mission field with a priority of ensuring that the women of Liberia are educated on health issues. She has lived her life serving others for God's glory and her passion to provide medical facilities and a medical staff to provide for the women in her home country is nothing less than remarkable. Her gifts and talents extend beyond the wonderful work that she is doing at the medical clinic to include supporting her community through distributing clothing, shoes and books to the children of the area. Chris is the salt and light of the many villages that she serves. What a blessing it is to support this ministry and see others come to know the love of Jesus through Dr. Chris and all she has done.
The organization's work truly impacts the lives of women. It does so transparently and effectively, using the donations given to wonderfully effect. This is truly an organization worthy of consideration.
I met Doctor Chris decades ago while we served together in Russia. We became great friends while working together building a local church while she was on duty sent to Moscow as a doctor. She took me on her some of her trips to the villages to visit her former classmates and do clinic with them. I rejoice that I am able to support her work in her own country, while serving her own people.
Doctor Chris has always had a heart for education - teaching people basic health care. She is a strong believer that through health education, people will learn to avoid illnesses and be healthier.
Dr. Hena had a dream many years ago that educating women was the key to bringing health to Liberia. Since the humble beginnings of her first office, she and her team have been devoted to this mission. The impact of their service continues to grow and the compassion with which they serve is powerful medicine in itself.
Despite the turmoil in Liberia, through Dr. Hena's leadership, Healthy Women Healthy Liberia has played a crucial role in providing healthcare for women, a often overlooked need in the country. Through her tireless efforts, the foundation has made essential medical services accessible to women who may have otherwise lacked access. Dr. Hena and her organization have truly been a blessing to the community.
Healthy Women, Healthy Liberia is a wonderful organization. A nonprofit ministry that provides care,
health education and now operates a new maternity center for women and children. It is amazing what
they have accomplished and what they are doing for the community. As a member of the Asbury Methodist
Church we are proud to help this organization in their mission. We give thanks for this life changing
Ministry.
Our church has worked with HWHL for several years. Dr. Chris Hena has diligently worked to build one of the most modern and complete regional hospitals in western Africa. Her efforts have helped thousands of native people by providing healthcare to an area desperately lacking in medical facilities. Dr. Hena and her staff deserve recognition and support for their tireless work at the hospital.
Our church became involved with Dr. Hena and her amazing work through a neighboring church, and I have visited the hospital in Kakata twice, and Chris has spoken her at Jordan UCC where I serve as the Senior Minister., The ministry of healing and compassion is incredible, and they are making an huge difference for God in this very poor country.
Dr. Chris has an amazing faith story as well as a heart for healing and care in Liberia. She is diligent in supervising and training local residents, supervises students and maintains a clinic that is fiscally responsible in a country where fraud is rampant. I trust the funds we donate will be used to expand, maintain and equip her clinic. Healthy Women, Healthy Liberia is a sterling example of God's work in providing an outreach we are all proud to support.
The Church that I attend has had a relationship with Healthy Women Healthy Liberia (the name we know this Foundation as) for many years. We send them “Barrels of Love” full of clothing, books, medical supplies and equipment, etc. They use what we send to change the lives of the people they serve. We get letters and videos thanking us for the donations and the support, but we receive blessings from being part of their mission too. Our people love to fill the barrels, help pack the truck with supplies, learn about the people in Liberia. So this Foundation not only impacts the lives of people in Liberia, it impacts the lives of people here in Pennsylvania as well.
As President of a non-profit organization donating deworming medicine to help support the work of this wonderful organization, I have worked with members of this organization and have been extremely impressed with the commitment and impact they are making in a very poor area of Liberia with little access to quality medical care before they began their work. I try to identify the neediest areas of the world and best NGOs working in those areas to receive our deworming medicine.
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This organization is led by a Liberian Christian physician, Dr. Chris Hena, with an incredible amount of experience implementing community based healthcare programs. Our organization chooses to partner and donate deworming medicine to this wonderful organization because they have proven to be very effective in providing healthcare in an area of Liberia that desperately needed this kind of help.
Gary Delp
President, The Worm Project
A ministry of Mosaic Mennonite Conference
This is such a wonderful charity! The impact on the lives of so many women and children in Liberia is priceless. I have volunteered through our church in Pennsylvania since 2017. This charity’s great communications and transparency makes it a joy to support financially as well.
The heart, soul, and fiscal responsibility of Healthy Women Healthy Liberia is found in the person of Dr Chris Hena. She truly LOVES the people of her native Liberia. She has seen the best of her people, has had to deal with the worst, and in the end; loves and cares for them all. She is backed by a Board of Directors who also seek to be good stewards of God's money.
When she returned to Liberia in 2012, she built the Waterfield Medical Center which provides excellent medical care to which Dr Hena added dental and eye clinics. Just recently I witnessed Dr Hena build a Maternity/Surgical/ER addition to the primary building. Dr Chris brought the project to completion ahead of time and UNDER budget! Who does that?? She did so by being very vigilant with a watchful eye and micro-management of the construction. She knew that there would be some duplicity, bribes, thefts, materials delayed in ports; but she was present to deal with issues as soon as it occurred. And did this all while running carefully the Waterfield Clinic.
Dr Chris realized at some point that some people would not be able to travel to the Clinic, and so she organized a team to go out into the community. They visit over 30 villages to provide health care, worm tablets, and vitamins. In Liberia worm pills and vitamins are not mere supplements, but vital medications. Of course, you need minivans to visit villages; and they can break down. To see how a new van was purchased and to repair the existing one was a masterpiece of fiscal responsibility, that I wish I could explain in detail.
I could go on and on about Dr Hena's many inventive ways she seeks to improve the health and welfare of her people because she LOVES them.
And in the end, these things are all done to the glory of God!
About 20 years ago, Dr. Chris Hena sat at my kitchen table and told me of the dream she had to go back to Liberia and open a clinic for the people of her village. On her next visit, she shared a photograph of her newly-built clinic; a small shed-like structure with a shower curtain hung for privacy. Her vision, Healthy Women/Healthy Liberia had taken flight. Dr. Hena's dedication and tireless efforts in building her team and support system created a ministry that now serves much of Liberia. The exponential growth of the center and services offered is clear evidence of the dedication to her original vision. I am always in awe of the tireless efforts of the team.
Before joining the board of the Foundation for Restoring Women's Healthcare to Liberia Inc., also known as Healthy Women, Healthy Liberia, I had been following the organization and its activities for six years. My initial introduction to the impact of HWHL was when its founder, Dr. Hena, presented the organization's work during the Ebola crisis.
As a Liberian immigrant, I've always kept a close watch on organizations working in my home country and sought opportunities to get involved. In 2019, during a visit to Liberia, my husband and I personally witnessed the impact of HWHL at the Waterfield Primary Care Center clinic. We were deeply impressed by their efficient use of resources and the services they provided to the community. As a result of HWHL's work, the community has access to preventive services, acute care, dental care, maternal care, access to pharmacy services and more. The Community Health Workers are invested and trusted in the communities they serve. In 2020, I joined the volunteer board of directors and have continued to be inspired by the unwavering dedication of all team members.
By supporting HWHL and their work through the Waterfield Primary Care Center, we are backing a well-organized, sustainable organization that has been in operation for over a decade and is continually expanding its services. I take pride in playing a small part in supporting the important work of HWHL!
I’ve supported HWHL since 2019, and have actually had the pleasure of volunteering for four months in Kakata, Liberia at their clinic to see the amazing work of the organization firsthand. Dr. Hena and her team run a tight ship to ensure that every dollar is put to good use in service of patients and the community. The clinic delivers high-quality medical care for little to no cost, which many of the patients would otherwise be unable to access due to the disorganization of other nearby clinics or the distance/cost to travel to similar quality clinics in the capital or out of the country. This is especially true of the quality of services it offers for pregnant women — who are able to deliver in a clean and safe facility, with wraparound pre and post natal care. HWHL also has an amazing team of community health workers who go out into the communities and villages surrounding Kakata to spread information about basic health and sanitation practices, and distribute vitamins, mosquito nets, wheelchairs/other mobility aids, and more.
I’ve seen how much care goes into the work of the Board of Directors here in the US and the clinic team in Liberia. This really is a wonderful and well-run organization that is saving lives!
Foundation for Restoring Womens Healthcare to Liberia also known as "Healthy Women Healthy Liberia" (HWHL) is fully committed, and is effective in attending to the health needs of the communities they serve in rural Liberia. Dr. Chris Hena, the Medical Director, leads the work in Liberia.
Through the Waterfield Medical Center, HWHL provides a well-rounded program which includes primary care, maternity care, eye, dental, preventive care and community outreach. Preventive and community outreach would involve building trust with the communities, wellness education, distribution of vitamins, distribution of worm tablets, etc.
HWHL long term commitment to the health and social wellness of the community involves continually training and sending to school gifted community leaders that can return to help this and other communities in Liberia.
Foundation for Restoring Womens Healthcare to Liberia/HWHL partners with small and major donors, people of good will, to help deliver the care that is needed in the communities.
I have full confidence in the leadership and staff of HWHL and is highly optimistic of a sustainable future for the organization as it delivers and respond to the health care needs in Liberia.
I am a strong supporter of Healthy Women, Healthy Liberia! I was introduced to HWHL in 2013, sat on their board of directors from 2013-2017, and served as an advisory board member from 2017-2019. Throughout my time on the board of directors, I was able to experience first-hand how seriously HWHL takes its fiscal stewardship responsibilities. I witnessed the organization grow from providing health care services in a tent with tarp walls, to a small concrete block structure the size of a garage, to purchasing an acre of land and building the state-of-the-art Waterfield Primary Care Health Center that opened in October 2017. Since 2017, HWHL has continued to expand their services to better meet the needs of their population. The Community Health Worker (CHW) model used by HWHL is known as a gold standard for providing public health care in communities with limited health care access. Without a doubt, HWHL is a non-profit organization that you can trust is using its resources wisely to better the lives of residents of Margibi County in Liberia, Africa. I have attached a picture of my visit to Liberia in March 2016 when I traveled with the HWHL Community Health Workers into one of the villages we serve.
The best reason to support this nonprofit is the transparency the foundation has regarding financial accountabililty. The donated funds are directed as requested. The mission of the foundation is also very impressive. The foundation is dedicated to improving the healthcare of the women of Liberia. To this endeavor, they have recently built a full hospital. I do, and will continue to faithfully support this organization. To God be the Glory!
I've visited this healthcare mission twice and I'm so blown away by how they help the medical needs of the poor and utilize the donors gifts. I became a board member and give myself as much as I can. I never seen someone who is so intentional with making making the most of ever dollar. I convinced that she sees it as her mission.
I've worked with our Medical Director, Dr. Chris Hena since she returned to Liberia in 2012 to establish the Waterfield Medical Center for the Foundation. In just 10 short years she has gone from seeing patients in her yard to a beautiful Medical Center complete with lab, ultrasound, EKG, pharmacy, eye clinic, dental clinic, canteen and more. The next phase includes an addition to the clinic featuring a Surgical Center, Maternity Center and Emergency Room, all which will open in 2023. In addition to the clinic a team of Community Healthy Workers visit over 30 villages around Kakata to provide basic medical training, administer vitamins and worm tablets, take blood pressures and refer patients needing additional medical care. So many lives are being touched by this ministry!