During their 2009 family reunion, the Ngwayah family decided to build a well-facilitated clinic in their hometown of Gbonokalansue.
This clinic will be named the Nadyne Kiapeh Ricks Memorial Clinic, in honor of their loving and caring mother, who contributed immensely to the spiritual, educational, moral, and physical well-being of many citizens of Liberia, especially the Ngwayah family.
The facility will have the following features:
- Twenty-four (24) room-clinics including a chapel.
- Three-bedroom house for visiting doctors and nurses.
- Generator House
- Mortuary
- Water Well/Pump
- Solar Panel for electrification
The following preliminary steps have already been taken towards the clinic’s construction:
- Donation of five (5) acres of land in the township by the surrounding villages.
- The ground-breaking ceremony for the project took place on May 11, 2013.
- Submission of plans for the clinic to an architect.
- Procuring of materials for the foundation.
- Starting construction on the building with the laying of foundation profile on May 24, 2014.
- Digging of the foundation through contractual arrangement was completed on June 7, 2014.
- Planting or erections of all first phase pillars was completed on June 21, 2014, while laying of cement blocks commenced on June 28, 2014.
Without the help of Sally and Jim Howard of Bismarck, Montana, this wonderful undertaking would not have reached this far.