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Building relationships through student scholarships, children's health and medical equipment
Annual Goal: $18,000.00
Year to Date Gifts: $4,798.00
The student scholarships provided by our project will give qualified and deserving students from very poor families the opportunity to attend school and be trained as doctors, dentists and nurses. This will help feed the mission hospitals well highly trained staff. Medical equipment is very expensive. The funds we raise for equipment will help the medical college train students in the use of the needed medical equipment. This past year we helped to replace worn out anesthesia machines and heart monitors. The third part of our fund raising will enable some children with congenital heart problems to receive open heart surgery. Without these funds the surgeries can simply not be performed. Each time we send $5,000 for an open heart surgery one is performed through a program called the Gift of Life. In the US this pediatric heart surgery costs between 90,000 and 100,000 dollars if there are no complications. In the Gift of Life program surgeons operate for free and the hospital subsidizes the cost. The families are asked to pay only $900 which for many of them means borrowing a couple of years' worth of salary. In the US we will give congregations and individuals the opportunity to see beyond their own needs.
The primary goal of this project is the building of relationships so that people in the US and people in India can share the healing touch of Jesus by providing scholarships to students, open heart surgery to children with congenital heart problems and provide funding for essential equipment needed for patient care and for training students. The long term impact is for Christ's gospel message of love and concern to be shared, heard and felt.
In India we want to see graduates of the medical students serving in mission hospitals throughout the country. We also would like to see children with heart defects running around and playing with other children normally. In the United States we want to see hearts warmed by their reaching to India with the gospel of Jesus Christ with a tangible witness.
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