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.