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Testing an Epidemic
The HIV/AIDS epidemic affects millions around the world, but offering HIV testing and education on short-term medical outreaches around the world can play a significant role in the fight against the global AIDS crisis. Read more...
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Dlo Water
Within days of returning home from a trip to Haiti following the 2010 earthquake stay-at-home mother Morée Scofield knew something needed to be done to promote change in the stricken country—within weeks, she had begun to act, and Dlo Water was born. Read more...
Clean the World
In the week following the earthquake that devastated Haiti, while nonprofits across the world scrambled to assemble funds, medical supplies and personnel, the team at Clean the World was busy packaging recycled soap. Read more...
Preemptive Love Coalition
This past weekend, doctors worked for five and a half hours on the frail heart of a little boy named Ahmed. Ahmed is a child from Iraq who has spent the first five years of his life battling congenital heart disease. En route to Ahmed’s procedure, his parents were in a serious car accident and hospitalized themselves a few hours away. The doctors, an expert team flown into Iraq for just such desperate situations, are aware they are doing more than giving a boy a new life. They are giving a family a future. And in some small way, they are giving people hope. Read more...
Lori Schierer // Marine Reach
The morning rays stretch over the coolness of the beach as two small fishing boats pull up to shore. Tumbling onto the sand are doctors, nurses and volunteers who arrived the evening before with the medical ship anchored just off the reef. Lori Schierer gives hugs while the Fijian children scamper excitedly around their visitors. Barefoot parents in sarongs and hand-me-down T-shirts wave hello, standing outside their shanty huts. Schierer is part of a missionary team from Marine Reach that sails to remote islands offering medical assistance and messages of hope. Read more...
Travis Gravette // Global Support Mission
Most of us are aware of the dangers of malaria—enough so to be prepared with plenty doxycycline before embarking on tropical adventures. But few realize that every year malaria causes 1-3 million deaths in sub-Saharan Africa, the majority being children younger than 5 years old. For Travis Gravette, one Christmas spent in Uganda during his senior year of college in 2004 was enough to decide his career path and lead him to start Global Support Mission two years later. Read more...
Schaun Colin // Oceans of Mercy
"The first time I went back to South Africa as a Christian, I saw my country through new eyes," says Schaun Colin, founder of Oceans of Mercy. "What struck me most was the plight of the AIDS orphans. A friend took me to a home for 12 orphans and I told my wife, 'This is our calling, this is what we’re supposed to do.'" Read more...
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