Sustainable Medical Missions Inc

Conferences were conducted in Burundi Congo DRC Ghana India Kenya Liberia Malawi Pakistan Rwanda Sierra Leone Tanzania Togo Uganda and Zambia for 7,497 indigenous faith and medical leaders. Attending were leaders from these specified nations. Demand again exceeded our capacity but we continued to keep our conferences small to invest deeply in those attending. Replication and discipleship allowed us to increase the number of those trained while keeping the groups smaller. In-person conferences in Burundi Kenya Ghana Liberia Malawi Rwanda Tanzania and Zambia followed the normal pattern with most expenses comprising of lodging food and transportation for each conference participant. Conference material focused not only on education but also on implementation strategies. Initial level conferences covered: an advanced medical process for care Zero in on Zero NTDs and what it means to be a Christian leader in a community from a medical and theological perspective. Advanced conferences focused on implementation and leadership while creating a platform for discussing both successes and challenges the participants had experienced over the past year.

Additional curriculum as well as key updates were developed for the training conferences during this period. Material was developed as medical modules and PowerPoints and previous material both simplified and translated for use in the village setting. Local leaders also created songs and even music videos to share these concepts. All material was fully annotated and include both best practices as well as current literature on the diseases. The material was written in collaboration once again with US African and Asian authors with full credit given to each author. Input was sought from indigenous medical and faith leaders. This was paired with the scientific research to create simple end-user documents for each disease.

Nations where we serve faced incredible strain due to the continued global spike in the price of goods that has caused basic items to increase 20-40% overall. Church closures in Rwanda compounded this further for some of our partners. Malawi also suffered from extreme drought that threatened the lives of hundreds of thousands of people. Relief funds were provided to help maintain the work in these severely affected areas