Yvonne Washington-Turay
Family Nurse Practitioner and
Founder of God's House International
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 About the Founder |
Yvonne Washington-Turay
MSN,FNP,APRN-BC is a Board Certified Family Nurse Practitioner who has
been providing care to those in need for more than 20 years. She is the
Founder of God's House International, Inc., which works to provide
health education and health resources in Freetown, Sierra Leone and St.
Thomas, USVI. Through God’s House, Yvonne also works to spread
homelessness awareness in St. Thomas. In 2008 she was ordained as a Minister. Click here to read her statement on this joyous event.
Her most recent endeavor in Freetown, Sierra Leone is dated back to 2000 when she initially began visiting the country. She has provided independent medical care since 2001 in Sierra Leone and is well-known for her efforts by residents in the city of Freetown, as well as in the villages of Gbendembu and Rukupr. One of her major projects in this region is the construction of the God’s House International free clinic in Freetown. The clinic was designed by Mr. Kandeh Turay, Yvonne’s husband, who is a native Sierra Leonean and a member of the Loko tribe. This couple has used their own personal financial resources and donations from family, friends and small businesses to make this dream come alive.
Yvonne has made a 360 degree connection in her life. After deeply researching her ancestry several years ago, she discovered that her ancestry traces back to Sierra Leone through the Geechee roots of her mother and great grandmother. The Geechee, otherwise know as Gullah, people were originally from regions of Sierra Leone and Angola. Through the trans-atlantic slave trade many natives of Sierra Leone were brought to South Carolina along with a number of Africans from Angola. Theories surrounding the origin of the names “Geechee” and “Gullah” are many. A search on the internet will provide some interpretations of the origin of the names. God’s House International is truly a tribute to the roots from which it has come.
Yvonne is also the writer of the Nurse’s Theme Song and the Nurse Practitioner’s Anthem.
Yvonne is a wife, a mother of five and grandmother of six.
Her most recent endeavor in Freetown, Sierra Leone is dated back to 2000 when she initially began visiting the country. She has provided independent medical care since 2001 in Sierra Leone and is well-known for her efforts by residents in the city of Freetown, as well as in the villages of Gbendembu and Rukupr. One of her major projects in this region is the construction of the God’s House International free clinic in Freetown. The clinic was designed by Mr. Kandeh Turay, Yvonne’s husband, who is a native Sierra Leonean and a member of the Loko tribe. This couple has used their own personal financial resources and donations from family, friends and small businesses to make this dream come alive.
Yvonne has made a 360 degree connection in her life. After deeply researching her ancestry several years ago, she discovered that her ancestry traces back to Sierra Leone through the Geechee roots of her mother and great grandmother. The Geechee, otherwise know as Gullah, people were originally from regions of Sierra Leone and Angola. Through the trans-atlantic slave trade many natives of Sierra Leone were brought to South Carolina along with a number of Africans from Angola. Theories surrounding the origin of the names “Geechee” and “Gullah” are many. A search on the internet will provide some interpretations of the origin of the names. God’s House International is truly a tribute to the roots from which it has come.
Yvonne is also the writer of the Nurse’s Theme Song and the Nurse Practitioner’s Anthem.
Yvonne is a wife, a mother of five and grandmother of six.
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