Rural Health Education in Villages Creates Long-term Change!

The Lutheran Church--MIssouri Synod Mercy Medical Team (MMT) Program is looking for a few good men and women to travel to Kyrgyzstan and implement rural health education accompanied by our mobile medical trailer. 

 

WHEN: Sept. 12-24, 2013

 

WHAT: All medical professionals, especially health educators, dental health professionals, and pediatric health workers, to join our experienced team leader and other medical professionals from around the U.S. and Kyrgyzstan in teaching a proven curriculum of basic health education to impoverished rural villages and their leaders.
 

HOW: Want more info? www.lcms.org/mercyteams

Click on the "volunteer" tab on our website and email us by responding to this email with notice of your interest.  Or call us at 800-248-1930, ext. 1711.

 

ITINERARY: Includes team orientation and training, international travel and lodging in the capital city of  Bishkek with daily team work in the village of Orlovka. Volunteer health education team will accompany the Lutheran Medical Trailer which offers primary care for women and children, dental care, and an eyeglass clinic.  Team will also assist in providing well-child checks and health education to the children of  the Orlovka Orphanage.  In addition to medical outreach, team will experience the rural beauty of Kyrgyztan and spend a day debriefing in the region of the Ala-Archa mountains before returing home.

"Put on then...compassionate hearts, kindness, humility, meekness, and patience, bearing with one another..."
--Colossians 3:12-13

click here: www.lcms.org/mercyteams