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Farma Health Service

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Location	Borne, Dernthe en Overijse, Netherlands
Introduction	Farma and his family live in Koidu town in Kono District, eastern Sierra Leone. The town has a Save the Children clinic where children and pregnant women can receive essential care. Farma's Health Services is 1 of 15 we run in Koidu Town Kono District. Collectively, these Health Services treated 17,022 children under 5, and 7,464 older children, in the year 2006/07. Sierra Leone is the second poorest country in the world, with infrastructure crippled by years of fighting and a severe lack of trained healthcare professionals. As a result, Sierra Leone is one of the toughest places to be a child. It has the worst child mortality rates in the world: one in four children will die before they reach their fifth birthday.

Location

Borne, Dernthe en Overijse, Netherlands

Introduction

Farma and his family live in Koidu town in Kono District, eastern Sierra Leone. The town has a Save the Children clinic where children and pregnant women can receive essential care. Farma's Health Services is 1 of 15 we run in Koidu Town Kono District. Collectively, these Health Services treated 17,022 children under 5, and 7,464 older children, in the year 2006/07. Sierra Leone is the second poorest country in the world, with infrastructure crippled by years of fighting and a severe lack of trained healthcare professionals. As a result, Sierra Leone is one of the toughest places to be a child. It has the worst child mortality rates in the world: one in four children will die before they reach their fifth birthday.