By this perceive we the love of God, because he laid down his life for us: and we ought to lay down our lives for the brethren. But whoever has this world's goods, and sees his brother have need, and shuts up his heart of compassion from him, how dwells the LOVE of God in him?
1 John 3: 16 – 17
On the 1st of July, 2008, a vision was being born by Agbotro Kwasi Jefferson about reaching to our societies with the message of health education in order to broaden the mind of the society on living healthy and longer. This vision was shared with other students of Nursing and Midwifery Training Collage – Berekum particularly those residents in Sunyani. They lauded the idea and promise to stand by it so that we can also contribute our quota to the development of the society in which we live as student Nurses and Midwives. The idea was shared with one Mr Benjamin Mereku, a tutor in the Nursing and Midwifery Training Collage – Berekum. He encouraged us and promised to give us his maximum support. The association started with a membership of Twenty two (22) and it was then called Sunyani Residents of Nursing and Midwifery Training Collage – Berekum.
A health educational outreach was planned in our first meeting in July 2008. It was agreed on to go for health education in some selected churches in the Sunyani Municipality after our short semester break. We decided to present on Diabetes Mellitus, Hypertension and Cardiovascular Accident (CVA) or Stroke. We did a lot of research into these conditions since we had not been taught by then and through the help of one Senior Nursing Student, Ansu Gyan David, we really understood the conditions very well and planned to go for the outreach on the 24th August, 2008 after our short break from school. On the said date, we met in front of the National Investment Bank (NIB) Sunyani Branch and started our journey to the churches. We were seven members who made it to the programme. We first went to Christian Praise International Center (C.P.I.C) whose overseer is Rev. Dr. Annor Yeboah, Christian Faith Centre Assemblies of God Church where their Regional Superintendent presides. We then continued to End Time Assemblies of God Church which is also presided over by Rev. Jacob Kwasi Yeboah. We left the church at 1:30pm to our houses.