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Magnanimous.
Multiplied.
Medical.
Three compelling words of empowerment. Together, they signal a unique, strategic approach for mission in Congo-DRC. How does PCP embrace the magnanimous, compassionate commitment of American medical personnel for multiplied impact in the Congo-DRC?
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PCP has developed an innovative structure through the PCP Medical Ambassadors program to engage Western medical and healthcare professionals to work alongside their counterparts in the Congo through a training-of-the-trainers program. Each trains 10-12 Congolese medical professionals, associated with one of the region’s hospitals or clinics, brought to a central location to be trained by the PCP Medical Ambassadors. This skill training includes assessment, the training of personnel, provision of supplies, professional development and ongoing follow-up for participating Congolese. Upon training, each trained professional returns to their facility, where they, in turn, train 8-10 people on the specific skills. One Medical Ambassador trains approximately 100 people through this multiplication impact of the training-of-the-trainers.
Indeed, the PCP Medical Ambassadors program is drawing increasing levels of interest and commitment from doctors, nurses and other practitioners from around the country where their expertise is harnessed for multiplied impact. We give thanks for those men and women who are responding to a call to participate as a Medical Ambassador. These magnanimous committed professionals are a critical link to the implementation and effectiveness of the programs.
Join us! Become one of the medical, or non-medical, ambassadors making a multiplied, strategic difference through the training-of-the-trainers program. Or support one medical ambassador for multiplied impact. Click here to learn more.
Blessings!
Meritt Lohr Sawyer
Executive Director
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A journey leaves us changed...
...and saves a life.
Today I met a 13 year old girl named Lundi. Only three months ago one full side of her body had been severely burned. Vital emergency treatment at the hospital was hours away by vehicle... if they'd had a vehicle, and one that could navigate roads with six-foot deep gullies. So her uncle lashed her to a chair on the back of a bicycle to transport her to Karawa Hospital. He began to push the bicycle the entire way, until missionaries David and Debbie Williams happened to drive up in their mission truck. What they found was a
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young girl in shock, nearly dead. It is unlikely she would have survived the trip by bicycle. But the medical team at Karawa Hospital went to work, even without electricity and a fragile water supply, and stabilized her. Now, before me was a happy, grateful and industrious teenager helping her family selling goods in the market.
A life saved. What will her future hold? Whatever it holds, it will be an actual future, thanks to Karawa Hospital.
Karawa Hospital warrants my support. How much more could be done for others like Lundi when electrical power, reliable clean water, and a viable economic engine are in place? God is able to do immeasurably more than we ask or imagine, but he also uses us to do immeasurably more than we think we are capable of, especially when we are in it together. I am thankful for the Paul Carlson Partnership who is supporting the training, operating and infrastructure programs in the Congo. Together, by God's grace, we will see more young lives saved such as Lundi, full of vitality and laughter, with their families at the market.
Herb Frost
Pastor, Evangelical Covenant Church
Rochester, MN
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