Funds intended for other purposes were used to get one generator working again, but new generators are needed. The need for trained workers is great. A full time missionary doctor along with a pharmacist, and nurse anesthetist are needed. Three doctors are doing work that 10 doctors did before the war. Yet life has improved in Liberia, Deanna Isaacson told the GHM board.
Health workers can now travel freely in the country, and farmers are doing more planting.
Phebe Hospital is being used by many though it still lacks equipment and personnel. Service has resumed at Curran Hospital on an outpatient basis. After suffering from major destructive storms in the last two years, Madagascar has now had a severe locust infestation that has wiped out all crops for much of the country. Madagascar is considered one of the poorest countries in the world. When Lutheran Church of the Master decided to disband, they distributed their resources to several church ministries.