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2008-01-08 issue:

MCC donates to hospital in North Korea

$200,000 to partner organizations will help children’s facility in Kaesong.

by Tim Shenk

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Mennonite Central Committee is donating $200,000 to renovate a children’s hospital in the city of Kaesong, North Korea. Kaesong Provincial Pediatric Hospital, a century-old hospital complex, has fallen into disrepair in recent decades. According to Kathi Suderman, an MCC representative for northeast Asia, the hospital staff contends with a faulty electrical system, drafty rooms and a lack of basic equipment for surgeries.



A doctor attends patients at Kaesong Provincial Pediatric Hospital in North Korea. Photo by Heidi Linton.

The renovation project will provide necessities such as running water, lights and beds to help medical workers improve care for the roughly 35,000 children they treat every year.
MCC is providing funds to Christian Friends of Korea, a partner organization based in Black Mountain, N.C., to carry out the project. Six workers from Christian Friends of Korea will begin renovations this spring, and local workers will complete them.

In recent years, MCC has provided shipments of food to North Korean hospitals. The Kaesong project will be the first hospital renovation that MCC has supported in North Korea since MCC started relief work in the country in 1995, according to Suderman.

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