A medical professional and Serving in Mission (SIM) missionaries who were central in the U.S. response to the Ebola virus crisis in West Africa will speak at 6:30 p.m., Monday, Feb. 16, at UNC Charlotte Center City.
The free community conversation “Fighting Ebola in West Africa: The Charlotte Connection” will feature Debbie Eisenhut, a SIM surgeon with the ELWA Hospital in Liberia; Nancy Writebol, a SIM missionary and Ebola survivor; and her husband David Writebol, also a SIM missionary.
Nancy Writebol contracted Ebola in summer 2014 when working as a volunteer in the ELWA Hospital. She was airlifted to the United States for medical treatment and has since recovered. Eisenhut is among the doctors who had responded to the crisis who were honored as TIME Person of the Year 2014.
The UNC Charlotte Council on University Community and the African Studies Academy at UNC Charlotte are hosting this event. Reservations are requested for the talk, which will be followed by a reception.
SIM is an international Christian mission organization with a staff of nearly 3,000 workers from more than 50 countries serving in 65-plus nations. In addition to providing medical assistance, SIM personnel are on every continent working in areas of education, community development, public health and Christian witness. While SIM stood for Sudan Interior Mission when it was founded 120 years ago, it is now a global mission known as SIM (pronounced S-I-M).
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