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Disciples work for health & healing worldwide

7/8/2024

Week of Compassion and World Council of Churches
​create new opportunity to serve

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Health and reproductive rights for women around the world remain as important as ever, and supporting individual access to complete and informed care, especially for women and young girls, is one way to lift families out of extreme poverty. Global research has repeatedly shown that when women in societies thrive, entire communities will be more prosperous, cohesive, healthier, and safer. 

The World Council of Churches, following its last Assembly in Karlsruhe, Germany (September 2022), reiterated a priority of gender justice and reproductive health for women and girls worldwide. Alongside global ecumenical partners, and through the Week of Compassion Women’s Empowerment Fund – from Pakistan to South Sudan, from the Roma people of Serbia to Palestinian refugees in the Ramallah/Jalazoune Refugee Camp, and in countless other places and ways – Week of Compassion has worked for decades to strengthen and fortify the lives of women and girls in otherwise vulnerable communities and situations.


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GIFTS TO LIVE ON:                                                         women's clinics in South Sudan

2/13/2024

a Special Offering 2024 Mission Moment

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South Sudan is a new country and there have been major conflicts since it became its own nation in 2011. One of the side effects of the ongoing conflict is the impact on the health systems, particularly on women and girls, who are especially vulnerable given the limited health care in the country. There is little infrastructure to support women and their health, leaving NGOs (non-governmental organizations) to deliver 80% of services like prenatal and postnatal care, along with family planning counseling and HIV screening and treatment. 

Providing such care is hard, and many women have to walk for miles to the health clinics. Truly amazing are the nurses and doctors and the care they provide – as important is the community space they create for women to support one another and empower one another to move forward. The impact is incredible.


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Modern Miracles

11/28/2023

providing health care in Pakistan

In June 2022, a torrential monsoon season devastated Pakistan, bringing the worst flooding in modern history, and leaving almost incomprehensible damage across most of the country, with 33 million people flood-affected and 6.4 million in need of humanitarian assistance. 

Week of Compassion responded through local ecumenical partners and will continue to do so for the long-term. 
We lift up the ongoing work of our partners in Pakistan and the surrounding region, including programs for health care and support – the focus of a recent visit by Executive Director Rev. Vy Nguyen and three Disciples colleagues. Last month, Rev. Brandon Johnson shared insights about girls' education in Afghanistan. We are grateful to share another meaningful reflection, this time from Rev. Dr. Caleb Lines, Senior Minister of University Christian Church, San Diego CA.

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Travelogue: South Sudan

4/25/2023

the impact of healthcare on women and their communities

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Recently, Executive Director Rev. Vy Nguyen, along with Week of Compassion supporter Bruce McCoy, joined ecumenical partners Lutheran Disaster Response for a week in South Sudan, seeing first-hand the ways women’s health care, community engagement, and intentional support can uplift and sustain whole communities. These travelogues and photos offer powerful insights from a remarkable visit, highlighting the life-saving programs of Week of Compassion partners serving vulnerable communities.


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Mobile Health Clinics in Yemen

4/11/2023

championing emergency health assistance

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Driving through Yemen’s desert under a blazing sun, Dr. Muhammad thinks about whether he’s brought all the right supplies to treat his patients: antibiotics, anti-diarrheals, medicine for high blood pressure.


He’s going where other groups can’t reach: a camp for Internally Displaced Persons (IDPs). In a country crushed by civil war and poverty, “Health is a dire need,” says Dr. Muhammad.

The people in the camps have next to nothing. “Food is not available all the time,” says Amal Mohammed, who coordinates health services at the camps. “There are a lot of infectious diseases and bad hygiene at IDP sites. They are living in a desert.”

With support from Week of Compassion, global partner IMA World Health has established a mobile health clinic project in Yemen ... 



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