We went to Benin at short notice to help start the construction of a clinic. The Peniel Clinic located in Cocotomy Benin was the vision of a local church to serve its community.

The programme was helped with the initial construction works in 2000 by Mission Challenge*. The clinic is so successful that it was in desperate need of extra space for its maternity work and by the time this phase of work was complete they had a new building for this vital work.

It was a real privilege to see the clinic in action each day it was staffed by some wonderful people a full time doctor, nurses and a lab technician. We saw the twice weekly anti-natal clinics carrying out immunisations, weighing etc. and we saw at least 1 new baby delivered each day.

One of the most common problems we saw was people suffering with malaria which was treated successfully if caught early enough.

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