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MIKE DEAL / FREE PRESS Volunteers load a hospital bed with mattresses for the shipping container. A small warehouse off Inkster Boulevard was bustling Wednesday morning as volunteers packed a shipping container full of donated medical supplies to send to a hospital in northern Sierra Leone. The container, shipped by local organization International Hope Canada, is destined for Kabala Government Hospital, which serves Kabala, the capital of Sierra Leone’s Northern Province, and the surrounding region. International Hope — a charitable non-profit, established in 1997 and run entirely by volunteers — ships used medical equipment and other health-care supplies to needy hospitals and clinics in developing countries around the world. The shipment, which will take about two months to arrive in Sierra Leone, was sponsored by Kanko Mansaray, a health-care aide at the Health Sciences Centre, and Abdulai Konteh, who also used to work as a health-care aide. Reporter: Erik Pindera 260429 - Wednesday, April 29, 2026.