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Through strategic partnerships with African health boards and support for local health systems, we are working to restore suspended initiatives, combat preventable diseases, and ensure continued access to lifesaving treatments, vaccines, and vital healthcare services for vulnerable communities. Our current Global Health priorities include: Maternal Newborn and Child Health; HIV/AIDS and tuberculosis; malaria awareness, prevention, testing and treatment; nutritional assistance and rehabilitation; essential medicines; and Water, Sanitation and Hygiene (WASH).
Through strategic partnerships with African health boards and support for local health systems, we are working to restore suspended initiatives, combat preventable diseases, and ensure continued access to lifesaving treatments, vaccines, and vital healthcare services for vulnerable communities. Our current Global Health priorities include: Maternal Newborn and Child Health; HIV/AIDS and tuberculosis; malaria awareness, prevention, testing and treatment; nutritional assistance and rehabilitation; essential medicines; and Water, Sanitation and Hygiene (WASH).
Photo: Courtesy of FAHM
Global Ministries is supporting the Foundation for Advancement of Haitian Midwives (FAHM) to assist the midwives’ efforts to increase access for displaced women to a screen-and-treat cervical cancer program through mobile health service delivery. In addition, gynecological exams, prenatal checkups, care for mothers and their babies, medication and psychological support for survivors of gender-based violence were also part of the services.
Photo: UMC Burundi Health Board
For the 82,000 people in Ruyigi province with no health care facility, the burden of walking more than 7 km (more than 4 miles) for medical care, especially for pregnant women and small children, was overwhelming. Through a partnership between The United Methodist Church of Burundi, the Burundian state, and Global Ministries, the new Gahambwe Health Center has changed all that, ending decades of struggle to access health care.
Photo: West Virginia Conference Disaster Response
McDowell County, W.Va. is one of the poorest in the U.S., and the communities of Anawalt, Leckie and Gary—home to Methodist churches in the Welch Charge—are among the hardest hit by a six-year water crisis. Through the W. Va. Conference’s connection to UMCOR, a Global Ministries Water, Sanitation and Hygiene (WASH) program grant has brought a 500-gallon “water buffalo” to provide clean water for county residents.
Healing God, you sent your Son to bring sight to the blind and wholeness to the broken. Bless clinics, caregivers and all who serve. May your Spirit bring comfort and courage and restore all people to health and abundant life.
Amen
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FAHM training for midwives to screen for and treat cervical cancer. (Photo: Courtesy of FAHM)
Women account for more than half of the total individuals displaced by gang violence in Haiti. According to the UN Office of International Migration (OIM), by the end of 2024, Haiti had more than 1 million internally displaced persons, with 87% residing in the metropolitan area of Port-au-Prince. The number tripled in just one year, a sharp deterioration of conditions in the country.
Global Ministries is supporting the Foundation for Advancement of Haitian Midwives (FAHM) to provide mobile cervical cancer screening for displaced women, as well as gynecological exams, prenatal checkups, care for mothers and their babies, medication and psychological support for survivors of gender-based violence.
FAHM strives to comfort these displaced women by providing medical assistance – a service that has become increasingly rare due to the closure and looting of more than 30 hospitals across the country, according to the Haitian Times.
Gahambwe Health Center in Burundi’s Ruyigi province, inaugurated in July 2025. (Photo: UMC Burundi Health Board)
In Ruyigi province, where 82,000 people had no health care facility in their community, the burden of walking miles outside their community for care, especially for pregnant women and small children, was overwhelming. Dr. Aloys Nyabenda, health coordinator for the Burundi Area, said this center in Gahambwe will contribute to universal health coverage and the fight against avoidable maternal and infant mortality.
In early 2024, Global Ministries supported the completion of Gahambwe’s maternity block, purchase of medical and office equipment and supply of essential medications. The funding was instrumental in opening the health center and enabling it to begin offering maternal, newborn and general outpatient care. Bishop Emmanuel Sinzohagera of the Burundi-Rwanda Episcopal Area praised the fruitful collaboration between the church and the Burundian government.
Read a reflection from missionary Patrick Abro on Gahambwe Health Center
McDowell County is one of the poorest in the U.S., and the communities of Anawalt, Leckie and Gary are some of the hardest hit by the current six-year water crisis. All have Methodist churches that are part of the Welch Charge.
To ease the burden of residents who have to purchase many gallons of drinking water weekly, the Welch Charge contacted the West Virginia Conference Disaster Response Coordinator, Jim McCune, for help. McCune’s United Methodist Committee on Relief (UMCOR) connection put him in touch with Global Ministries’ Water, Sanitation and Hygiene (WASH) program.
A WASH grant allowed them to obtain a 500-gallon “water buffalo.” The conference disaster response team arranged to fill the portable water buffalo from the Welch water system, the county seat of McDowell, and transport it to Gary, where residents have been supplied with refillable containers. Residents of all three towns can come to get water, and volunteers will also continue deliveries for those who need it. Meanwhile, residents, including church members, continue to advocate state and local officials for a permanent solution to their aging, compromised water infrastructure. Full Story
McDowell County is one of the poorest in the U.S., and the communities of Anawalt, Leckie and Gary are some of the hardest hit by the current six-year water crisis. All have Methodist churches that are part of the Welch Charge.
To ease the burden of residents who have to purchase many gallons of drinking water weekly, the Welch Charge contacted the West Virginia Conference Disaster Response Coordinator, Jim McCune, for help. McCune’s United Methodist Committee on Relief (UMCOR) connection put him in touch with Global Ministries’ Water, Sanitation and Hygiene (WASH) program.
A WASH grant allowed them to obtain a 500-gallon “water buffalo.” The conference disaster response team arranged to fill the portable water buffalo from the Welch water system, the county seat of McDowell, and transport it to Gary, where residents have been supplied with refillable containers. Residents of all three towns can come to get water, and volunteers will also continue deliveries for those who need it. Meanwhile, residents, including church members, continue to advocate state and local officials for a permanent solution to their aging, compromised water infrastructure. Full Story
