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 Missions of Love began as a medical mission that used medicine to bring people to know Christ. Over the years, Missions of Love has expanded beyond our Medical Clinic to include an Eye and Ear Clinic, Safe Water Program, Children's Band and Choir as well as many more. We are continually growing and spreading the good news to everyone who will listen. Please use the menu to the left to scroll through our various ministries. |
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Outreach Clinics In 2006, Missions of Love began a new program to bring healthcare to children in mountainous and remote rural villages of the greater Jolivert area, utilizing community chosen health care workers. Numerous villages in the countryside have limited formal roads to Jolivert and even fewer doctors or clinics. In the past, a parent would walk 2 – 8 hours from their homes to Clinique Jolivert with their ill children, some children perishing along the way. Seeing, understanding and hoping to provide the health needs in distant and isolated villages, the idea of outreach clinics was conceived and researched. The World Health Organization states, “community health worker programs can and should be seen as part of a broader strategy to empower communities, enable them to achieve greater control over their health and improve the health of their members,” and Missions of Love agreed. During 2006, villages were determined. The people of these communities chose literate adults they trusted and respected, important values noted by the Center for Disease Control and the steering committed of Missions of Love, to be trained as a health care worker. It was agreed that the clean water program needed to be a partner in these new clinics (click here to learn more about the clean water program).
By the summer of 2006, a weeklong training in Jolivert was given to community laypersons to become the healthcare provider for their village, and on-going continued training occurs for a number of weeks afterward by one of the Clinique Jolivert nurses or doctor. The new community health care workers learn how to diagnose and treat the most common life-threatening illnesses, including dehydration, malnutrition, malaria and parasites. They also learn how to give first aid for burns, fractures, wounds and sprains. They are tested to assure quality care to the people in their villages, and the first two outreach clinics were opened in the fall of 2006. Initial training has been given during this past summer to people from three additional villages, and we are looking forward to these outreach clinics opening during the fall of 2007 as well. Child First Meds, a foundation in Texas, donates free medications to the outreach clinics, which is a blessing of enormous magnitude. Additional groups and individuals donate other needed supplies to complete the setting-up of the outreach clinics. In a country where up to 20% of the children die before they reach the age of 5, access to healthcare is essential. We are happy to say that in the first year of service, almost 900 children were seen at the outreach clinics and there have been no reported pediatric deaths in the outreach clinic’s service areas due to lack of access to healthcare! God is blessing this program in every aspect, and you could help too, with your donation! MaryEllen Sanok, RN, MSN, FNP-C Christophe Velcine
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