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The Board of World Mission is the Church of Scotland's overseas department. We stretch out to the world and participate in God's mission worldwide, acting on behalf of the whole Church of Scotland.
HCJB Global United Kingdom is the British office of HCJB Global, an international Christian organisation working in radio and healthcare.
Internationial China Concern (ICC) is a Christian development organisation changing lives by bringing love, hope and opportunity to China's abandoned and disabled. ICC provides homes for life, medical services, therapy, special education and vocational training for more than 200 abandoned and disabled children and young adults. ICC also runs training programmed for social welfare workers across China and is committed, long term, to reducing abandonment.
The Leprosy Mission International (TLMI)
05/11/2004 (ref: 5165) full details...
The Leprosy Mission (TLM) is an international Christian organisation serving the needs of people affected by leprosy in 30 countries. It brings healing through appropriate treatment and care, as well as practical support for people with ongoing leprosy related problems, working in partnership with communities, national governments and other agencies
Friends of Ludhiana is the U.K. support base for the work centred at the Christian Medical College and Hospital (CMC), Ludhiana, Punjab, North India.
Middle East Christian Outreach (MECO)
09/07/2004 (ref: 5173) full details...
MECO is an international and interdenominational fellowship of evangelical Chrisitans who share the vision of extending the kingdom of God among Middle East people, in partnership with the national churches
Mission Africa brings the message of Christ to unreached people in Africa, disciples believers in their faith and seeks to bring God's love and care to the sick, hurting and destitute.
The Nepal Leprosy Trust is a UK-based Christian agency that provides services to people affected by leprosy in the Kingdom of Nepal.
NLT serves not only those affected by leprosy, but also other marginalised groups. Its early work, which began in 1972, included establishing a range of rehabilitation, income generation and financial assistance projects for people affected by leprosy, destitute women and children, and other disadvantaged people. Following 20 years of experience, the Trust established Nepal's third leprosy referral hospital at Lalgadh, in the southeast of the country. It was officially opened in 1996 and is now a major centre with over 30,000 visits per year, offering much more than just medical diagnosis and treatment.
South American Missionary Society (SAMS)
12/06/2003 (ref: 5186) full details...
Long worked in close partnership with the Anglican Church of the southern cone of
Latin America, and some dioceses of the Episcopal Church of
Brazil.
UFM Worldwide is an interdenominational mission sending missionaries, mainly from the UK, to Africa, Asia, Asia Pacific, Europe and South America. The mission was founded in 1931 as
The Unevangelised Fields Mission.
Kiwoko Hospital services approximately half a million people in the Luwero triangle, an area roughly half the size of Northern Ireland, and annually treats around 23,000 outpatients and around 6,000 inpatients. They have 6 doctors.
This rural mission hospital is based 90KM from Kampala, offering hospital and community based healthcare services to the local community.
Medical Centres of West Africa (MCWA)
15/09/2003 (ref: 5492) full details...
Co-Ordinates visits for short-term electives / visitors and organises purchase of equipment / supplies for use in the field.
located in a village setting in the foothills of the Himalayas, 160 miles north of Delhi and 25 miles west of the Uttaranchal Sate capital, Dehradun. The hospital was founded in 1936 by the late Dr Geoffrey Lehmann.
The hospital provides a range of services including a 100 bed in patient unit, General Surgery, Paediatrics & Paediatric Surgery, Orthopaedics, Obstetrics & Gynaecology, Community Health, Ophthalmology, General medicine, Dental services, Clinical psychology, Occupational therapy, Physiotherapy.
A Salvation Army 300-bed general hospital including special departments in medicine, surgery, paediatrics, ophthalmology, obstetrics, orthopaedics.
There is an associated nurses' training school and community health department. Nearby there are Salvational Army vocational training centres for physically handicapped.
A Salvation Army 70 bed hospital with a focus on maternal child health and an emerging community health outreach process.
A 150 bed general hospital with training schools for nurses, midwives and laboratory assistants. There is an associated leprosy control programme and rehabilitation centre. A mobile community health team operates in the surrounding districts. There are five associated rural health centres. An AIDS care, prevention and control programme has developed since 1987. A four phase nutrition programme is conducted.
A Salvation Army 100-bed general hospital with nursing and midwifery training schools. A student centre of the Community Health Department of the University of Zimbabwe is affiliated with the hospitalwith whom it cooperates in community health in the surrounding districts.
A Salvation Army 25-bed hospital, focussing on maternal child health and paediatrics. It serves a widespread catchment area in which a mobile unit operates and a community health programme has developed. HIV/AIDS is becoming a significant issue.
A Salvation Army 85 bed general hospital with a community health programme.
A 120 bed Christian Mission Hospital located in a semi-rural area of southwestern Nigeria, with a Family Residency as well as a Housemanship programme. They have 4 full time consultants (two in family Medicine and two in Obstretrics/Gynecology). They regularly have medical students from Nigeria and other parts of West Africa as well as the US do international/mission medicine rotations with us. We see a variety of medical cases including malaria, tuberculosis, meningitis, tetanus, peptic ulcer disease, hypertension, diabetes, renal disease, and AIDS. Surgical cases such as typhoid perfprations, hernias, complicated deliveries, prostatectomies, cancers, road traffic accidents, and other types of trauma are common.