In April, 2009, Dr Samuel Rodriguez, Medical Officer in charge of the hospital and thus the fund recommended that proceeds from this fund be also applied to the feeding needs of children born of HIV infected mothers. In order to prevent mother-to child transmission of the HIV virus, children born of HIV infected mothers are not usually breastfed by their maternal mothers. These types of children need special feeding to help them survive after they are born of their infected mothers. Children with Cancer were also identified by Dr. Samuel as needing financial assistance because of their expensive treatment.

The hospital was timely because it helped curb the high infant mortality rate, and sleeping sickness that was killing both children and adults. It can be said with certainty that children born in that area around that time were among the fortunate ones to survive the high infant mortality rate, and subsequently benefited from the services of the medical facilities. Most parents too had a lot to gain from the hospital.

For example, my beloved and caring dad, Mbe Nkemamin Khumbah David survived so many years of failing heath thanks to this hospital. He personally had a special room in the hospital where he comfortably received first class medical services. As a retired (veteran) teacher, he spent much of his life with the Focolare. Until March 1997 when he transitioned into eternal glory, he cherished the medical services of “Mary Health” more than any other medical facility in Cameroon. My mum, Mrs. Khu, like her husband still enjoys the medical services just in the same way her husband did. It takes just a phone call, and Mami Khumbah is in her special room receiving all the medical care she needs.

I was then inspired to create this fund to honor my beloved dad, who had great love for humanity and his community. Secondly, to show my own appreciation and support to the Foundress of the hospital who travelled thousands of miles to come install these very cherished medical services that have served people of all ages, walks of life, different generations of Cameroonians in general, and Fontem in particular. As a member of that community, I feel privileged that because of Chiara, fondly known and called Madam or Mama Chiara, benefitted from that great virtue of “LOVE”. Thus, this fund was conceived as a sign of exercising my deep seated community obligation, and a way to transcend the “LOVE” Mama Chiara taught us. If Mama Chiara could travel thousands of miles to come and save our lives, we on the spot can also do something to save the lives of the ones around us. It takes one person to build a city.

Currently, the proceeds are being used for the Milk Program for HIV+ children, Chemotherapy for children with Non-Hodgkin tumor as well as medical treatment for children suffering from Epilepsy.