Local Rotarian going to West Africa to help with Ebola crisis

Dwight Thompson of Lake Forest Park Rotary (right) and fellow worker
at the Center for Disease Training class in Atlanta GA
for Ebola Workers going to Liberia.

Dwight Thompson, Lake Forest Park Rotarian, has volunteered to serve in Monrovia, Liberia assisting with the humanitarian relief effort due to the Ebola Outbreak in that country.

Dwight will train community volunteers with how to provide grief counseling for Ebola survivors and their family members. In addition to developing mental health support for Ebola health care workers, he will coordinate the re-opening of at least one community medical clinic that has been closed since the beginning of the outbreak.

Working at a grassroots level, Dwight hopes to reduce the public stigma of the victims and coordinate needed health services for communities. His month-long trip is being sponsored by a Liberian NGO and is supported by his Rotary Club and its members.

Dwight Thompson, second from left,
at CDC training in Atlanta

He returned on Saturday from the Center for Disease Control (CDC) Training for Ebola Health Care Workers who are deploying to West Africa.

During the training, he learned the latest on the outbreak, required personal safety protocols and measures to be taken for its control.

He leaves on October 30th.

The Lake Forest Park Rotary is accepting donations for medical supplies and logistical support for Dwight's mission in Liberia. Please send your donations to:

Lake Forest Park Rotary Charitable Foundation

PO Box 55983

Lake Forest Park, WA 98155

Or you may contact any Lake Forest Park Rotarian.

Updated article with PO Box for contributions 10-18-2014 1:24pm