Type of Project: Medical and Dental clinic that treats between 5,000-7,000 patients.

Medical Program: share medical expertise with children and adults who would not otherwise receive help or know hope. Previous participants include: surgeons, pediatricians, general medical physicians, emergency room physicians, psychologists, pharmacists, nurses, technicians, therapists, medical students.

Dental Program 4-Part Focus:

• Educate children and their school teachers about proper dental/oral hygiene
• Relieve pain and suffering through infected teeth extractions
• Restore smiles by restoring permanent teeth
• Train public health dentists in modern dental procedures and provide essential equipment

Dentists, oral surgeons, surgical assistants and dental hygienists are all needed.

For medical/dental providers who do not speak Spanish we have an ample supply of bilingual Honduran and North American interpreters to facilitate excellent medical and dental care.     

This team will join approximately 50 Ugandans to staff an outreach to more than 500 people. Most the people you will minister to live in poverty and are vulnerable to sickness.   This team will provide hope and encouragement and seek to meet emotional, spiritual and physical needs. (However, this is not a medical team)

For seven days the team will stay in the hospital team house with modern facilities and during the five day outreach accommodations will be rustic. Bottled drinking water will be plentiful and nutritious Ugandan food will be prepared by the team. The team will be housed in tents, carry water and help prepare meals.

This team will receive three days of orientation at the hospital and then accompany a team of Zambians to a rural "bush" area to care for those who may have never received medical treatment and/or visitors.  This team will live in tents and will not have access to modern toilet or bathing facilities.  Plenty of purified water and nutritious food will be provided along with on-the-field training and life-changing experiences.

Members of this team will minister directly with the patients and their families through: Bible Stories, crafts, songs, prayer, assigned tasks...working alongside the Spiritual Minstry Team.

Artists wanted: Under the guidance of the Executive Directors office, the hospital is looking for someone to design murals/mosaics ahead of time and oversea the artwork on the field.  This artwork will minister to the children and families in the ward and waiting areas.

Construction skills needed:  A playground for disabled children would serve as therapeutic entertainment.  It would help build strong bodies and pass the time of recuperation.  The Executive Directors office has basic concepts but needs help with design, material list etc.

We will try to accomodate team members with specific medical skills by offering opportunities to serve or observe in their field.Trip participants will be housed in modern facilities during your time in Zambia.  Plenty of purified drinking water and nutritious Zambian food will be provided.

Applications due by Feb. 9, 2010.