Global Health Ministries continues the healing ministry of Jesus Christ through support of the health care programs of Lutheran Churches in the developing world. Listed below are projects that have been submitted by these Churches and approved for solicitation and funding by the GHM board of Directors. They represent the priority needs of our partners to maintain and strengthen their capacity to provide hope and healing to the poor. We are pleased to present them to you as opportunities to be instruments of God’s grace and engage in global health mission with general or specific project gifts. Remember to identify the project number and title with each contribution, and thanks for all you do’“help the hands that heal!”

View/download a PDF version of our current projects list (March 2008).

CONTAINER SHIPMENTS AND OPERATIONS SUPPORT

In 2008, GHM will be making 18 shipments of medical supplies and equipment to Lutheran hospitals in seven countries. GHM volunteers will gather, sort, repair, catalog, pack and ship items ranging from needles, syringes and bandages to incubators, computers, ultra sound and operating tables as donations to 22 hospitals. The cost of sending one 8 by 8 by 20 foot container is approximately $13,000. These donated articles are of immeasurable assistance to Lutheran health care programs overseas, often making the difference between continuing or closing. GHM’s goal for 2008 is to raise $175,000 for shipping costs. ELCA synods are encouraged to adopt a shipment to your companion church as part of your global mission commitment.

You may designate your gifts to the country or facility of your choice or to:

99-S0000 Shipping costs - GENERAL - “use where needed most.”
04DU-P0001 - Support of Dumki Hospital $6,000
04LM-P0001 - Support of Lamb Hospital $6,000
GHM partners with the ELCA and a consortium of congregations to support health ministry in Bangladesh, a part of the ELCA’s concern for ministry among Muslims.
09-S0000 Cameroon: Shipping of medical supplies and equipment. $39,936
10-S0000 Central African Republic: Shipping of medical supplies and equipment to the Gallo health center. $16,000
46CU-P0001 Liberia:Curran Hospital Recovery: Funds contributed will assist the re-supply and construction of the hospital now that the country is at peace. Gifts may be given in any amount.
46PH-P0001 Liberia: Phebe Hospital Recovery - GHM assists the Phebe Hospital in its recovery efforts after devastation to their facility resulting from the civil war and vandalism. Gifts may be given in any amount.
48-S0000 Madagascar: Shipping of medical supplies/equipment. $15,000
49-S0000 Malawi: Shipping of medical supplies and equipment. $10,500
57-S0000 Nigeria: Shipping of medical supplies and equipment. $12,150
60-P0001 Papua New Guinea: Shipping of medical supplies/equipment.
60EL-P0001 - ELC-PNG Dispensaries - $11,600
60IM-P0001- Immanuel Lutheran Hospital - $13,700
88-S0000 Zimbabwe: Shipping of medical supplies and equipment.

CONTAINER SHIPMENTS AND OPERATIONS SUPPORT

Tanzania Hospitals

79BU-P0001 Tanzania: Bumbuli Hospital - Shipping of medical supplies and equipment. $15,412
79DO-P0001 Tanzania: Dodoma. A multi-year hospital development project currently supporting shipping of medical supplies and equipment. $32,223
Tanzania: Dodoma. A well-planned staff development training program to prepare Dodoma hospital for future needs:
79DO-E3003: Julius Mmassy, Lab Technician, three years $7,261
79DO-E3004: Hadikawa Ndagala, Lab Assistant, two years $1,208
79DO-E4501: Atukuzwe Ngowo, Nurse Midwife, two years $1,200
79DO-E6801: Eunice Ketang’enyi Pediatric Cardiologist, three years $42,000
79PE-P0001 Tanzania: Pare Diocese (Gonja, Shighatini, Dispensaries) - Shipping of medical supplies and equipment. $15,412
79HA-P0001 Tanzania: Haydom Hospital Shipping of medical supplies and equipment. $15,412
79IA-P0001 Tanzania: Iambi Hospital - Power surge protection project to prevent destruction of medical equipment due to power fluctuations. $15,000
79IL-P0001 Tanzania: Illembula Hospital - Shipping of medical supplies and equipment. $15,412
79IU-P0001 Tanzania: Ilula Hospital
Shipping of medical supplies and equip-ment. $5,158
79LV-P0001 Tanzania: East of Lake Victoria - Support of dispensary.
79LU-P0001 Tanzania: Lugala - Shipping of medical supplies and equipment. $9,885
79MACH-P0001 Tanzania: Machame Hospital - Shipping of medical supplies and equipment. $10,938
79ND-P0001 Tanzania: Ndolage - Shipping of medical supplies and equipment. $10,910
79NY-P0001 Tanzania: Nyakahanga Hospital - Shipping of medical supplies and equipment. $12,677
79NY-D5010 Tanzania: Nyakahanga Hospital - malaria bednets for young mothers and children. $5,000
79NK-P0001 Tanzania: Nkoaranga Hospital - Shipping of medical supplies and equipment.
79SE-P0001 Tanzania: Selian Hospital - Shipping of medical supplies/equipment. $44,000
79SE-P3002 Tanzania: Selian Hospital Orthopedic Institute. A new surgical rehabilitation program for disabled children. $705,000
79SH-P0001 - Shighatini Dispensary, Shipping of medical supplies and equipment $15,412

OTHER SUPPORT OPPORTUNITIES

CAMEROON
9-D1040 Cameroon: Hospice Care Program. At Ngaoundere Hospital, a new program of home care for the terminally ill, including AIDS patients, responds to the increased need for such services as a witness to the Gospel with dignity and grace. $25,000
CENTRAL AFRICAN REPUBLIC
10GA-P0000 CAR: Gallo Health Center project. The dream of the Church and community leaders for the people of a region where no other health services exists, a new primary health care center will soon be under development. Gifts may be given in any amount.
10-D1005 CAR: Aids Awareness Program. To provide counseling, self-care training, pastoral care and educate the community about HIV/AIDS and those living with AIDS. $20,000
COLOMBIA
14-P3200 Columbia: Strengthening Communitarian Pharmacies. The Church supports refugees in this civil war-torn nation through community dispensaries $10,500
ETHIOPIA
18-D1090 Ethiopia: Women’s Ministry HIV/AIDS Awareness - Women are most vulnerable to the impact of AIDS in the developing world. The Ethiopian Evangelical Church Mekane Yesus is fighting back by training women as counselors and educators to reach 100,000 people and combat the spread of AIDS and discrimination, $19,294
INDIA
32MO-C3200 India: Mohulpahari Hospital Development and shipping: $7,000
32PA-C6100 India: Parkijuli Hospital Development and shipping: $7,000
32BE-S0000 India: Bethesda Hospital Shipping supplies and equipment. $6,500
32D-9005 India: Andhra Pradesh Wells Project. The Lutheran Church (AFLC) is combining its evangelism efforts with village projects to provide clean water. $10,000
LIBERIA
46PH-D5010 Liberia: Phebe Hospital Malaria Prevention - Mothers and children served by Phebe Hospital will receive bednets and malaria prevention education and follow-up to evaluate measures to reduce incidence of the disease. Goal: $16,000
MADAGASCAR
48-D6000 Madagascar: Pharma-cotherapy for Mentally Ill. Local religious renewal movements have created “Tobys” which care for the mentally ill. GHM subsidizes their efforts with medications costing $15,000 per year
48-E1001 Madagascar: Continuing Education - in management and patient care for training of professional staff.
Goal: $10,000
48-E4001 Madagascar: Nursing Scholarships and development of new nursing school. The Malagasy Lutheran Church offers a three-year nursing training course for 25 carefully selected students, and is establishing a new training center in Antsirabe. Goal: $33,000
48-M6400 Madagascar: Medical Professional Teacher Subsidy - Provides partial subsidies for expenses incurred by medical professionals recruited by GHM in response to requests from the Malagasy Lutheran Church health care programs for training services to upgrade the skills of their medical staff. Gifts may be given in any amount.
48RC-P0001 Madagascar: Rural Clinic Support - Salary subsidies for the struggling clinics in the most remote areas of the country can be a virtual 'shot in the arm,' greatly assisting the clinics to become self-sufficient. Patients are very poor; financial assistance is needed initially to provide care. $25,000
48-P6410 Madagascar: Pharmaceutical Fund to be used for the purchase of medications to be distributed throughout the health care system of the Malagasy Lutheran Church. $150,000
48-Q0001 Madagascar: Medical Equipment - Funds for urgent requests for medical equipment and supplies. $15,750
48-Q1502 Madagascar: Ultrasound for SALFA Hospitals. $13,000
48-D9004 Madagascar: Famine-struck areas of the South are in need of wells for clean water supplies to villages. $20,000
48-E1050 Madagascar: Bio Med Workshops. To enhance staff capacities to maintain and repair medical equipment in 8 hospitals, 14 health centers and 22 dispensaries, they will undergo training workshops in 2008. $7,500
48Q-0020 Madagascar: Dental Surgery Instruments and Training. The director of the Church’s dental program is in need of new surgical instruments, and will receive additional training from a volunteer dental surgeon on short-term mission. $12,600
48IV-G0001 Madagascar: Anosy Integrated Village Development Program. An exciting new initiative in Southern Madagascar that combines efforts in primary health, sanitation and clean water, education, evangelism and small business development in one program to enhance the “health” of poor villages. $56,000
MALAWI
49MC-E4001 Malawi: This is to finance the first year of nurse’s training for 3 students who will soon provide leadership to the Church’s mobile clinic program. $5,000
49MC-S0000 Malawi: Shipment of medical supplies and equipment $10,500
NIGERIA
57HD-P0001 Nigeria Health Progran Development - The church’s evangelism efforts in predominantly Muslim Northeastern Nigeria will include training of health care workers to manage a network of dispensaries, provide wells and malaria prevention initiatives for local villages and equip a hospital and training center. Gifts may be given in any amount.
57-S0000 Nigeria: Shipping of medical supplies and equipment. $12,150
TANZANIA
79MD-C0001 Tanzania: Maasai Dispen-sary Capital Developments - A program to renovate the 14 Maasai dispensaries continues. Financial support is needed to improve the buildings and equipment. Gifts may be given in any amount.
79MD-P0001 Tanzania:Maasai Dis-pensary Operations - An ELCA missionary doctor is assisting in the operation of 14 dispensaries which serve the Maasai people in an area the size of the state of Iowa. Gifts may be given in any amount.
79MD-E1001 Tanzania: Maasai Dispensaries Continuing Education- Serving a remote and empoverished region, ELCA missionary Dr. Steve Friberg proposes a training program to upgrade skills and insure continuity of medical staff. $11,000
79SE-C0100 Tanzania: Selian/Arusha Expansion (aka ALMC:Arusha Lutheran Medical Center) - A new hospital is near completion adjacent to the Arusha Town Clinic. It will meet the growing needs of this expanding city and add an important Christian witness through increased access for the poor to the highest quality medical care. Gifts may be given in any amount.
79SE-E1001 Tanzania: Continuing Education - Selian Hospital is providing continuing education for doctors and nurses in a variety of specialty courses. $33,000
79SE-P0001 Tanzania: Selian Hospital - Funds contributed to support the on-going development of health care at Selian Hospital. Gifts may be given in any amount.
79SE-P8000 Tanzania: Surgeons - GHM subsidizes the salaries of two Tanzanian surgeons at the Selian Hospital with a grant of $14,000 per year.
79SE-Q1500 Tanzania: ALMC - (Arusha Lutheran Medical Center) equipment - This covers the purchase of a ventilator for the ICU and a refrigeration unit for the morgue in the new expansion hospital in Arusha. $35,000
79-Q1503 Tanzania: ELCT Equipment Protection project - An investment in protection against the damaging effects of power surges to save costly medical equipment and improve patient care in all 20 hospitals of the Tanzanian Lutheran Church. Goal: $38,349
79IL-E6012 Tanzania: A five-year scholarship program for Jason Mtokoma leading to a medical degree and return to leadership of the Kidugala Health Care Center of the Southern Diocese, ELCT. Goal: $8,650.
CHARITY FUNDS
Your gifts assist hospitals and clinics in Africa, Madagascar, and Asia to cover the medical costs for patients who are too poor to pay. During the year 2006, you helped to contribute between $100 to $2,500 to each of several countries.
You may designate your gifts to the country of your choice:
Bangladesh
Ethiopia
Cameroon
Liberia
Namibia
Madagascar
Papua New Guinea
Zimbabwe
Tanzania
or to:
99F0000 Charity General - “use where most needed.”
ENDOWMENT FUND
99-30100 Endowment Fund - A managed fund providing funds in support of Global Health Ministries mission in perpetuity. Details available.
BUILDING FUND
99-42100 Building Fund - For acquisition and renovation of the new warehouse space to expand our ministry of shipping medical supplies and equipment. GOAL: $150,000
GENERAL
99-41010 General: to be used “where most needed ” - Gifts may be given to GHM without designation.
You may also give to a country to be used “where most needed.” (Country designation in bold.)
04 Bangladesh 54 Namibia
05 Bolivia 56 Nicaragua
09 Cameroon 57 Nigeria
10 CAR 58 Pakistan
14 Columbia 60 Papua New Guinea
18 Ethiopia 70 Senegal
19 Guyana 76 South Africa
32 India 79 Tanzania
46 Liberia 88 Zimbabwe
48 Madagascar
49 Malawi

99-D1001 General - HIV/AIDS Initiative to support overseas partner churches in combating the spread of AIDS and caring for those affected by the disease. $50,000
99-D5001 General - Malaria bednets (mosquito nets). Several countries have programs to provide mosquito nets at subsidized costs to schools, hospitals and the general populace. $6/net - Gifts may be given in any amount.
99-D9001 General - Safe Water- Impure water supplies result in many illnesses. GHM seeks to assist health care facilities and communities in developing clean water sources. Gifts may be given in any amount.
99-M5000 USA - Travel for Medical/Dental Students - GHM provides $1,000 “Travel Assistance” grants to Lutheran medical students who spend one quarter in an overseas Lutheran Hospital. Gifts may be given in any amount.
99-M7500 Short-term Mission Volunteers. Provides partial subsidies for expenses incurred by volunteers recruited by GHM in response to requests from overseas Lutheran health care partners for short-term training, service and program development projects. Gifts may be given in any amount.
99-Q0001 - Medical equipment and supplies - To help provide new medical equipment and needed supplies for Lutheran hospitals in a variety of countries. Goal: $22,000
99-D1405 - Hospice Kit Support: to provide partners with grants to purchase medications needed by hospice care patients and to help cover shipping expenses.
99-S0002 - Midwife Kits Shipping: Donations to this project will help cover the costs of shipping thousands of midwife kits every year to our overseas partners in Lutheran health care.