Lack of access to a hospital is the difference between life and death.
There is no ambulance for an emergency. The nearest hospital will take an hour by motorbike, many hours if you have to walk. If you are pregnant, injured, or too sick to make the journey, you might not make it.
Medical emergencies become deadly. Regular check-ups simply do not happen, and treatable illnesses become life-threatening.
You enable life-saving free medical camps in those places, especially East Africa, where Kinship United has hosted several camps in recent years, all because of you.
The most recent camp was in Ssekanyonyi, Uganda this fall. It takes months of planning, your generosity, and many volunteers to make it all happen!
Here’s what you provided: medical consultations and treatment, dental care, wound care, vision and hearing tests, pre-natal and infant care, malaria treatment, medicine distribution, and spiritual counseling.
Over 1,000 people attended, not just to receive care, but to participate. Ssekanyonyi volunteers guided neighbors to the right services, and ensured that every patient understood their diagnosis and follow-up steps.
Remember Cate? She’s an orphan alumna from the Kireka Kinship Project, now a nurse who always volunteers at every Kinship United medical camp in Uganda.
This time, Cate was overjoyed to work in the village she was born in before being rescued by Kireka. “I returned to Ssekanyonyi to work alongside local pastors, health workers, and volunteers during a community medical camp hosted at the Kinship church home,” Cate said. “We arranged tables with supplies gathered through months of planning. Community leaders had identified the most pressing health needs. Over 1,000 people came. Voices rose in worship: pastors, caregivers, children, and neighbors side-by-side.”
The healing lasts longer than just those two days! Kinship United continues to run health education sessions, follow-up visits, and prayer groups for those who attended the camp.
“One moment stayed with me,” Cate shared. “A small boy, about three years old, was brought by his grandmother for a malaria test. She knew the symptoms, recognized the urgency, and walked more than an hour to reach us. As we talked, she shared how the church’s earlier workshops had taught her to identify warning signs. Her quick action meant we could treat him before the fever became life-threatening. That’s the kind of local capacity we hope to strengthen.”
Want to help health and healing reach hundreds MORE vulnerable people again? These medical camps cannot happen without the amazing generosity of people like you!
Any gift to Medical and Dental Care provides for the health care of all the orphaned children at Kinship Projects worldwide, and enables us to do more community outreach camps like this one in Uganda.
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