Over the last five weeks of conflict in Ukraine, the Medical Ministry International family has demonstrated an outpouring of love and support for our directors in Ukraine, our network of partnering hospitals, churches, and the Ukrainian people in the communities where we have had a presence. I cannot thank you all enough for your donations, your prayers, and your encouraging words. Read the full Update from Leanne Ferris, Executive Director.

Ministry is happening today in #Ghana were a local team is hosting a mobile clinic in partnership with Christ Is the Answer Obeyeyie Assembly to provide health care for those who need it most.

This week our fully Bolivian team is running a project to provide spiritual and compassionate health care to those in need. Fewer people are travelling internationally these days, but the needs continue and as a ministry we are called to respond. To run these projects in Bolivia and other countries, funds are being raised on a per country basis for locally sourced medications, logistics, transportation and honorariums for team members.

Wheelchair distribution in Peru is well underway for 2022! We are thankful for the many physical therapists, mechanics, pastors, administration, and general helpers involved. It takes lots of people to be able to do this.

The Vision Project to Colombia saw almost 3700 patients, distributed 3000 pairs of glasses, performed over 100 complicated eye surgeries, and fit 15 people with artificial eyes.

That’s a wrap for our first Project Team in 2022! These folks served well the people of Nagua, Dominican Republic providing much needed primary and dental care, and performed surgeries that had been delayed as a result of the pandemic.

Over the past five years, Professor Gregory Porkhomenko and his son Oleg have performed more than 300 cataract surgeries in Ukraine. They are volunteers and considered patriots of their country.

Visions projects are carried out in partnership with #MMIUkraine: Co Cf "Ukrainian Compassion Project"/Бо "Бф "Український Проект Милосердя", Медичні центри Новий Зір and local churches.

Sight is being restored to people in poverty who had lost all hope to a fulfilling life. Attention has been directed to veterans who lost their sight during recent conflict in the country.

Thank you to Dmitry Kozlov and the entire team of the Novy Zir clinics.

MMI Bolivia is working in San Carlos providing Primary Care, Dental, Surgery, and Health Education services.

“We’re right back at it in Ghana! Even though it’s hard, I so love this work!” - Nicole Williams, MD

MMI Ghana‘s first Women‘s Health Project since the start of the pandemic was a success. We‘re so grateful for this caring and talented team that performed several life-changing OB-GYN surgeries alongside Barnor Hospital staff in Accra.

After preselecting patients last month, a major surgical brigade project is currently taking place in Bolivia. Lined up surgeries include: gallbladder, hernia, lipoma, goiter, cysts, and hysterectomy.

A team of 17 participants working alongside MMI Dominican Republic are in Palenque this week providing Primary Care, Dental, Surgery, and Health Education services.

It’s not every project that a baby gets delivered, so it’s always a very special one when our teams get to experience a birth like this.

Eight North American volunteers and MMI Amazon are spending 2 weeks travelling and camping along the Igara Paraná River while providing essential primary care, dental care, and health education services to remote communities.

Primary Care projects took place in Guaitú, Minero, Los Piyos, and at the local Mennonite Colony in the last several weeks.

Wait lists for surgery have been growing during the pandemic as hospitals have been full caring for COVID-19 patients. This week our all Filipino project team is serving in Alfonso Lista, Philippines bringing surgical capacity to the local hospital staff.

“100 Eyes” is a campaign offering free ophthalmological operations to veterans in Ukraine diagnosed with traumatic cataracts.

For this project, we have partnered with Ukrainian Compassion Project, Ukrainian Mercy Project (doctors Emil Alibeili and Tofik Teymurov), New Zir Medical Center (ophthalmologist George Parkhomenko and team), Alcon ophthalmological company, as well as participants and volunteers of the NGO Green Stripe.

MMI Amazon’s Real Love project is travelling 17 hours by boat to reach the region of Tarapaca. The team will be serving the indigenous villages with medical, dental, nutrition, optical, & integrated health care, and pharmaceutical services.

They are then continuing down the Cotuhe River to continue their Real Love project to villages there.

The team completed over 100 cataract surgeries in Tuxtla Gutiérrez, Mexico on a vision project this week!

MMI Amazon is providing sexual and reproductive health care to women and survivors of gender-based violence in vulnerable and remote populations along the Amazon River.

We’re so excited to have North American participants back in the field this week! Eye Surgery is happening in Mexico & Primary Care in the Amazon.

Our Ecuadorian team is carrying out a local project this week to provide spiritual and compassionate health care to our patients. As we anticipate easing travel restrictions, our local teams are looking forward to having you join their efforts!

The MMI Honduras team is completing their first major medical project after a full year. Doctors, dentists, and optometrists are treating patients in Zacapa Santa Bárbara.

After over a year, MMI Peru was able to return to their optometric campaigns with all the necessary COVID-19 prevention protocols. The team is very eager to help patients with their visual health problems once again. These vision services will continue to be carried out every Monday.

The local Medical Ministry International Bolivia team has just completed a local project providing health care for lasting change. Thank you to our committed Bolivia supporters for enabling this project to take place!

MMI Dominican Republic has been serving on a project this week in Dajabón.

Many of our international leaders are finally getting vaccinated against COVID-19! We are very grateful that the leaders of MMI Ghana, MMI Asia, and MMI Amazon have received their first doses.

From March 13-20, MMI Dominican Republic held a local project in Sabana Grande de Boyá, providing Primary Care, Dental Care, and Health Education to numerous patients in the region.

Our partner in Azerbaijan, the Caspian Compassion Project, has been providing health care services to low-income families, internally displaced people, and other conflict-impacted people since 1999.

Last week, CCP traveled with their Mobile Eye and Dental Clinics to the areas of Baku, Khudat, Hudat, Sumgait. Several injured and disabled veterans and families who lost loved ones in the war were screened for cataracts and prescribed and given eye glasses. At a Youth Development Center, dentists examined and treated children and teachers.

A local Vision Project took place this week in La Concordia, Chiapas, Mexico.

MMI Amazon is serving as an implementing partner of World Food Programme in this United Nations OCHA initiative. You can see more of this collaboration in UNOCHA’s current report as we continue providing health care for lasting change ➝ Read the Report