Over 100 million children in the world suffer from diseases you and I almost never encounter.
That’s why, through the support of our friends and partners, we are dedicated to maintaining and advancing medical efforts in some of the world’s worst places.
Cambodia
The average person visits a physician just once every 3 years. Life expectancy is less than 50 years old. And since the Pol Pot genocide, there is an extreme shortage of medical professionals. Health care is almost nonexistent.
We launched Hope Cambodia: 30 Days of Hope to confront this challenge. During this 30-day crusade, 80 doctors, nurses, dentists, EMT personnel and other medical professionals from South Carolina to South America traveled to Cambodia and volunteered their time to:
- Treat sick men, women and children
- Perform diagnostic testing
- Provide Medications
9,000 people were treated in all. We are also building a hospital in Cambodia to treat hundreds of patients on an ongoing basis.
Louisiana, USA
In partnership with Healing Place Church, we purchased a state-of-the-art mobile dental truck. Along with a mobile medical unit, which we also help support, the dental truck visits several low-income areas in Baton Rouge each month. Our dental team extracted over 354 teeth from 174 patients in 2007.
Chandrakal, India
Like most villages in third-world nations, the 100,000 people in the surrounding villages of Chandrakal, India, desperately need medical care—but can’t pay for it.
To prevent a medical crisis from getting worse, in 2006 we built a hospital in Chandrakal. This hospital offers free medical care to hundreds of patients each week.
We also continue to build churches and install Well of Life freshwater wells in villages all across India.
Kosovo
Our dental clinic saw over 1,630 patients in 2007.
Peru
We joined Spill the News to provide 1 million children anti-parasite medication.
Brazil
Along the Amazon River, we sponsor a medical boat that provides medical and dental care to thousands. In 2007 we treated 2,070 medical and 1,233 dental patients.