HELPING HANDS Medical Missions

“Only if I serve my neighbor can my eyes be opened to what God does
for me and how much He loves me.” - BENEDICT XVI

The Problem

• People living in rural areas of developing countries have either never received medical attention of any kind or have limited access to healthcare.
• People of developing countries are exploited by anti-life propaganda and government sponsored programs which inhibit their choice of healthcare options.

The Solution

• HELPING HANDS Medical Missions provide short-term trips by medical personnel to poor areas throughout the developing world to provide medical attention in the fullness of the Catholic tradition. Consistent with our intent to provide long-term solutions to poverty, the missions always include a
  priest to aid in ministering to the body, mind and spirit.
• Services provided include: surgeries, dental care, physical therapy, consultations, distribution of medications, house calls, and Natural Family Planning courses.
• Our HELPING HANDS Medical Missionaries also take part in the mission’s spiritual program of daily prayer, Mass, meditation, classes on the Church’s teachings in the field of bio-ethics, and door-to-door evangelization visits.

The Need

• Average annual cost to finance nine medical missions is $179,000
• Average annual cost to finance one medical mission is $20,000
• Funds are used to purchase medical equipment, surgical kits, medicines and other necessary materials
• Medical personnel volunteer their time and pay their own travel expenses; funds are needed to defray the expenses for one priest and a seminarian on the mission 

To learn more about how you can help those less fortunate,
please contact Amber DeMartino at:
phone 800-961-8153 - amber.demartino@catholicworldmission.org
33 Rossotto Drive, Hamden, CT 06514
Our legal title is: Catholic World Mission, Incorporated