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Global Health

Explore impact stories and learn how your support helps partners strengthen health systems and provide essential care for individuals and communities around the world.

Shungu Health Clinic Provides Beacon of Hope in Kamina

The clinic, supported by Global Ministries, addresses a wide range of medical needs and serves as a critical resource for maternal and child health.
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As Ebola Spreads, UMC Prevention Efforts Strengthen

Medical facilities, schools, churches, community health workers, doctors, government officials, teachers, pastors, students, taxi drivers, farmers – it takes everyone working together to overcome an Ebola outbreak.

Church builds on Ebola response in Congo

Global Ministries and UMCOR are helping to strengthen the church’s Ebola response in eastern Congo, including building a new treatment center and a large-scale communications campaign.

Church Installs Rainwater Tanks in Isolated Congolese Village

A rainwater collection project installed by the Eastern Congo Disaster Management Office is designed to combine disaster response and health programming to address the needs of communities affected by conflict.

Support for Healthier Mothers and Babies: World Breastfeeding Week

Preventing malnutrition in pregnant women, mothers, and babies is a key element of a Global Ministries’ joint program on food security and nutritional health.

Global Ministries and UMCOR Support Ebola Response Efforts in DRC

Grants for training, community outreach, and coordination with health authorities are addressing preparedness and response in affected and high-risk regions.

Church Steps Up Ebola Response in Congo

 A coalition of United Methodist partners are working together to meet medical and communications needs to prevent Ebola’s further spread in the region.

Chiricahua Community Health Centers Widens Outreach in Arizona

Global Ministries’ Global Health unit helps provide healthcare and social assistance to a population in the U.S. that is rural, isolated, and predominantly uninsured.

World Malaria Day: Finishing the Fight We Began

Looking back at the challenges faced and surmounted in the UMC Imagine No Malaria health initiative spurs efforts to find new pathways to conquer the disease.

Deaf Ministry Farming Project Brings Hope to Mutare

A United Methodist initiative that assists those in need and also empowers the Deaf and hard-of-hearing community.

Deaf Awareness March: A Call for Inclusion

With support from Global Ministries, United Methodists in Mutare, Zimbabwe, take action to raise awareness and demand equality for the Deaf and hard of hearing.

Contact Information

Have questions? Send us an inquiry and we’ll get back to you promptly. Please direct all media inquiries to Susan Clark, chief communications officer for Global Ministries and UMCOR.

General Inquiries

info@umcmission.org

Media Inquiries

Susan Clark, Chief Communications Officer
media@umcmission.org
800-862-4246

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