Help Sustain the Efforts of Lutheran Medical Volunteers

This October, 2009, a team of 10 volunteers and two staff traveled to Madagascar to offer medical clinics to communities surrounding the city of Antsirabe. We carried with us tens of thousands of dollars worth of medication and were able to treat 910 individuals over the course of 4 days of clinics.

Now the team has left Madagascar and returned to their lives here in the United States, however, the needs of the Malagasy people remain. In a country where private hospitals are too expensive for the average citizen and government hospitals are corrupt and of poor quality, people often look to Christian and mission hospitals for affordable healthcare and humane treatment.

The Lutheran Hospital in Anstrirabe, Madagascar has a reputation throughout central Madagascar as a place where professional integrity and Christian values are upheld and valued. However, like many hospitals in developing countries, there resources are significantly limited. Each day they get by on what they can.

LCMS World Relief and Human Care, in partnership with the Orphan Grain Train, has received massive amounts of medical supplies and medical instruments intended for the Lutheran Hospital in Antsirabe, Madagascar. While these material donations are valued in excess of $350,000, there is still great need for funding the shipment of these supplies.

Your donation can make a huge difference in the life of one of the hundreds of people who receive care at the Lutheran Hospital in Antsirabe each month.