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.

Mumbai, India
In January 2008, we held a 4-day medical outreach in Mumbai, India. In all, our doctors and staff treated 1,408 patients, provided free prescriptions, and more than 1,100 people gave their lives to the Lord.

Ethiopia
In partnership with International Crisis Aid, we have recently opened a new medical clinic in Ethiopia. Officially opening in February 2008, this new clinic includes a pediatrics and birthing unit, ophthalmology unit, pharmacy, food bank, medical training for doctors, general exams and testing. The clinic also has 4 outposts in the surrounding areas to make it easier to get food, medical treatment and medications to people living far away from the facility.

Acuna, Mexico
In April 2008, Hand of Hope conducted a 4-day medical outreach in Acuna, Mexico, providing 1,155 patients with free medical care and filling 3,455 prescriptions, as well as rejoicing over 399 salvations.

Peru
Hand of Hope also conducted a 4-day medical outreach in Peru in July 2008, treating 3,600 patients and celebrating 1,848 salvations. Our team filled 10,800 prescriptions free of charge, providing much needed medication in a place where health care is viewed as a luxury. Over the course of the last year, we have also been excited to provide 1 million children with lifesaving antiparasitic medication throughout Peru.

Egypt
In 2008, Hand of Hope offered free medical care to a total of 285 patients. Reaching out to various villages in rural Egypt, we offered services in ophthalmology, internal medicine, dermatology and pediatrics.

Haiti
Joyce Meyer Ministries is funding a medical project that, once completed, will provide antiparasitic medicine to 6,000 children throughout Haiti.

Yemen Health Project
The health care situation in Yemen is one of the worst in the Arab world. We partner with Partner Aid International to equip local health workers with the knowledge to improve health care in their communities. Because the infant mortality rate is severely high (ranked 46th in the world), they also train midwives, set up midwifery clinics and offer women’s health awareness classes.

Cambodia
The average person in Cambodia visits a physician just once every 3 years. Life expectancy is less than 50 years. 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, receiving free medical care and prescriptions. We are currently 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 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. Among other procedures, 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
In 2007, our ongoing dental clinic in Kosovo offered free care to more than 1,600 patients who normally could not afford treatment on their own.

Brazil
Along the Amazon River, we sponsor a medical boat, an ongoing outreach, that provides medical and dental care to thousands. In 2007 we treated 2,070 medical patients and 1,233 dental patients.