John (with Hank): follow the PIH Sierra Leone project for five years with video, photo and audio updates (2019)
promise · status: the project it belongs to reported its result · last event: progress update (2025-10-31) · owner: John
In October 2019, announcing their $6,500,000 donation, John said he and Hank would follow the Partners In Health project in Sierra Leone for five years and beyond with video, photo and audio updates. John gave updates in 2020 and 2022, and in 2023 he visited Kono District for the first time since Covid.
Part of: Maternal Center of Excellence: the brothers' Partners In Health project in Sierra Leone (2019)
Told alongside: Partners In Health maternal health project in Liberia funded by DFTBA profit (2019) · John: as a teaching hospital the Maternal Center of Excellence will train the next generation of Sierra Leonean health care workers (2019) · John: at current monthly donation rates, the PIH Sierra Leone project will raise over $15 million in five years (2020) · John: as Sierra Leoneans trust mental health care, demand for its services will keep rising (2019) · John and Sarah's 2019 trip to Sierra Leone and its hospitals (2019)
About: Partners In Health, Sierra Leone, Maternal Center of Excellence
| date | event | what | video |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2019-10-22 | promised | John says they are committed to following the project's successes and challenges over the next five years and beyond, through video, photo and audio updates and interviews with Sierra Leonean health workers. | Why We're Donating $6,500,000 00:04:43 |
| 2020-01-28 | progress update | John says PIH now employs over 450 people, 96% Sierra Leonean; local nutritional supplements are reducing malnutrition; the hospital's maternal team is hiring nine nurses and four midwives. | Looking Away (Again) 00:04:17 |
| 2020-07-21 | progress update | John gives an update on the PIH Sierra Leone project: COVID-19 closed and reopened Koidu's emergency department, PIH leads contact tracing, and a baby care unit opens soon. | Somebody Once Asked . . . 00:01:28 |
| 2020-11-17 | progress update | John recalls that a year ago they announced a project supporting PIH and Sierra Leone's government in radically reducing maternal mortality, raising $25 million over five years to strengthen Kono's health system. | Our Biggest Project Yet: A One Year Update 00:00:00 |
| 2021-04-20 | progress update | Despite the challenges of the last 15 months, the Maternal Center of Excellence is on schedule thanks to the Ministry of Health, colleagues at PIH and thousands of donors. | Breaking Ground!!! 00:00:00 |
| 2022-01-04 | progress update | With support from PIH donors and Sierra Leone's Ministry of Health, the Kombayendeh clinic now has a stocked pharmacy, running water, a laboratory, clinician training, and patients. | After 15 Years on YouTube, THIS IS THE MOST AMAZING THING 00:05:04 |
| 2022-11-15 | progress update | John gives a three-year update on the PIH Sierra Leone project in four parts: what happened, what's happening, why, and what's next. | 3 Years In: What Happened, Why, and What's Next 00:00:00 |
| 2023-05-02 | progress update | The description says John visits Sierra Leone's Kono District for the first time since Covid and is astonished by the progress, the hope, and how far is still to go. | GOOD NEWS video description |
| 2025-05-13 | progress update | John says, thanks to the government and groups like PIH, Sierra Leone's lifetime maternal death risk fell from 1 in 17 to around 1 in 74, an over 60% reduction, though still too high. | I Have the BEST News 00:01:27 |
| 2025-10-31 | progress update | Hank announces that the ribbon has just been cut at the Maternal Center of Excellence at Koidu Government Hospital, thanking the community, Partners In Health and Sierra Leone's Ministry of Health. | We Did It… 00:06:16 |
What is said about it
1 statement, by date (the events above are the turns of the thread; these are the details).
- 2025-05-13 · I Have the BEST News — John: Repeating what he said in 2019, John says long-term systemic problems demand long-term systemic responses, so ongoing support is needed. — 00:04:32