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Moms and babies arrive for a growth and development check-up in Mozambique.
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Global Ministries partners with United Methodist conferences and health boards to improve the health and well-being of people worldwide. Through our Global Health program, we’re helping communities strengthen their healthcare services, eliminate preventable diseases, like malaria and HIV and AIDS, and support vulnerable groups, such as mothers, newborns and children.
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Providing clean and safe water sources and improving sanitation facilities to promote better health
As needs change, our global health initiatives evolve to care for the world’s most vulnerable. Learn how we guided and supported communities toward recovery through our Abundant Health, Imagine No Malaria and Covid-19 programs.
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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
