2010 Global Leadership Institute

2010 Global Leadership Institute
The Global Leadership Institute was launched in Bo, Sierra Leone, West Africa, on 5 October 2009 with 25 participants from Ivory Coast, Liberia and Sierra Leone. A three year program with a group of pastors starting each year for a three year period. The 2nd year students progress to the 2nd year of study and so on. The institute was directed by Pastors Gregory & Agnes Bangura, founders and presidents of Rabboni Missions International Inc. All Nations Fellowship, a Vineyard Christian Fellowship, Tulsa, Oklahoma, USA, is a sponsoring ministry for this Global Leadership Institute. The All Nations Fellowship pastoral & cohort team for 2010 will include Pastor John Thompson and Ronald McVicar.

Tuesday, June 15, 2010

Shots for Sierra Leone

I have not traveled out of the US since the early 1980's and that was to the UK, Scotland. So I had not updated international shot record and my US passport was beyond expired. So shots 1st which required some information. I went on line to the CDC web site and found out for travel to Sierra Leone, West Africa the following vaccine recommendations included Yellow Fever, Hepatitis A or immune globulin (IG), Hepatitis B, Typhoid, Rabies and Polio. And being up to date on routine immunizations: measles/mumps/rubella (MMR) vaccine, diphtheria/pertussis /tetanus (DPT) vaccine, and poliovirus vaccine. Hepatitis A & B required a series of seven shots.

I might have avoided some of these vaccines if I had kept my international shot
record which was started back in the Marine Corp back in 1977. In the first few days of bootcamp (13 weeks) they had us lined up like cattle with Navy Hospital Corpsmen with these shot guns on each side. Not sure what was worse this immunization shot line or the 1st day on the rifle range. (ok another story). Lesson - don't loose your shot record.
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