Heart to Heart International is a leading global humanitarian organization that works to improve health and to respond to the needs of disaster victims worldwide. We specialize in delivering essential medicines and supplies, as well as providing the necessary training to increase the level of medical care in underserved regions of the world. It’s a challenging task, but it is made easier through our network of partners and passionate volunteers — both of which fuel our ability to respond to human needs on a global basis and keep us on the cutting edge of humanitarian work around the world.
In 1977, World Medical Mission was established to assist general surgeons as they desired to volunteer for short-term medical missions. Today, as a ministry of Samaritan's Purse, they place volunteer Christian physicians, dentists and other medical personnel in Protestant evangelical mission hospitals and clinics in Africa, Asia, Europe, Oceania, Latin America, and the Middle East. Their staff provides placement and logistical support for our volunteers as they seek to use their skills for the Lord. They also staff a biomedical department and warehouse which provides critically needed medical equipment and supplies to these and other medical mission facilities.
Engineering Ministries International (eMi) is a non-profit Christian development organization made up of architects, engineers and design professionals who donate their skills to help children and families around the world step out of poverty and into a world of hope.
Kingsway Charities is a Christian non-profit organization committed to sharing God's compassion and love here at home and around the world by feeding the hungry, healing the sick and helping elderly widows.
At Urbana 06, over 25,000 people gathered to worship God and hear how he is using people to accomplish his purposes throughout the world. For sixty years, God has been using Urbana conventions to change the lives of students and to advance his kingdom in our world. If you are wondering how you might use your education, skills, and resources to share the love of Christ with people around the world, we warmly invite you to come to the next Urbana conference in December 2009!
Wichita State University has teamed up with the local organization, Hospitals of Hope (HoH), to send a group of physician assistant students to Bolivia each spring. This year, four students and one faculty member will take part in an elective rotation at the HoH clinic near Cochabamba, Bolivia. The students will be putting into practice the knowledge and skills attained at WSU to diagnose and treat underserved patients in the village of Vinto in Cochabamba.
Established by the Pennsylvania College of Optometry, Salus University’s accredited graduate degree program offerings span the sought-after professions of Optometry, Audiology, and Physician Assistant as well as Education and Rehabilitation for the Blind and Visually Impaired. Salus physician assistant students can complete a rotation with Hospitals of Hope in Bolivia.
Yale University is one of the oldest and most prestigious schools in the United States. Yale’s roots can be traced back to the 1640s, when colonial clergymen led an effort to establish a college in New Haven to preserve the tradition of European liberal education in the New World. Yale physician assistant students can complete a rotation with Hospitals of Hope in Bolivia.
PAPA (Physicians Aiding Physicians Abroad) was founded in 2003 with the intent of providing practical help to physicians who had a desire for medical missions, but no practical experience in planning mission trips. Since then, PAPA's mission has expanded as they have seen needs arise, and they now focus much of their attention on sending medical supplies and volunteers to those in need. Hospitals of Hope partnered with PAPA in early 2009 to send a container of medical supplies and equipment to Karanda Hospital in Zimbabwe.
John F. Kennedy Medical Center is the main government hospital in the entire country of Liberia. Hospitals of Hope formed a partnership with JFK in early 2009 to help rebuild the medical infrastructure destroyed by 14 years of civil war.
CenterPoint International Foundation began as God shared His plans with a few Liberian Christian leaders. In September, 2004 these men and women discovered that God had planted similar visions for a place in central Monrovia, Liberia that would complement and support the local church.
Holy Cross Anglican Church is a Bible-based, evangelical, community church founded in February 2004 to uphold the historic teaching of Christianity expressed in the Bible, the Nicene and Apostles' Creeds, and the Thirty-Nine Articles of Religion. Hospitals of Hope partners with Holy Cross to complete emergency response trainings at our hospital in Bolivia.
In February, I abandoned my comfortable existence as a fourth year medical student in North Carolina, and traveled to Bolivia, South America for a short term mission trip.
