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

Partnered with World Food Programme, MMI Amazon distributed over 60 tons of food to 1157 families in 20 different indigenous villages of the Amazon Region this past week.

This week, MMI Ecuador has been working diligently on a local Primary Care and Health Education project. They have been distributing reading glasses and medicine to patients in the towns of La Cocha and Amaguaña.

The first project team of 2021 is complete! 21 Colombians met in Leticia and set out down river to bring spiritual and compassionate health care to indigenous villages. Thank you for serving, MMI Amazon! And for those unable to travel, thank you for financially supporting this important work.

The local Amazon team is running a project this week providing primary care, integrated health education and dental services to 291 families in 4 indigenous villages.

To expand on the program that has been supplying 7 villages in the Amazon with food over the previous 6 months, the MMI Amazon team has identified 560 additional families in 12 new villages. They are looking forward for the next phase of the program continuing into 2021!

Medical Ministry International Peru continues to collaborate with Joni and Friends to serve and bring the good news. This time in the coastal towns of Camana and Ocoña. Many were blessed with prayer, bibles, wheelchairs, canes, walkers, masks and food baskets.

Through the Health Center “Caspian Compassion Project” in Azerbaijan, a team has been training local leaders and providing vision services to the poor, and is now collaborating with the UN Refugee Agency to provide glasses to internally displaced people currently settled in Baku. Click here to read article.

On November 1st, our first international project with North American volunteers since March took place in the Amazon. The team provided primary, dental, and vision care services while taking all necessary precautions in the Amazon region. We want to extend a huge thank you to these participants who joined our first pilot project with new protocols!

More than 1.6 million people throughout Honduras have been affected by Hurricane Eta. The country is yet to fully recover from Hurricane Mitch which hit 22 years ago, and the economic downturn caused by the COVID-19 pandemic has left them with scarce resources to respond to Hurricane Eta.

Please join us in prayer for Honduras, and if you're able, please consider donating at www.mmi.org/donate (add note "Honduras Relief")

Nutritional health is an increasing concern in many communities where we have been serving for years. Medical Ministry International Honduras and Gustavo Elicegui have been responding to these needs this week by ministering and providing food baskets.