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VISION
You can save a life. Combine primary health care training and God's heart for the poor and needy to bring hope and healing in developing nations. Be challenged in your relationship with God, find your purpose in the Great Commission, and embark with us on the adventure!
ABOUT
NEXT SCHOOL RUNS FROM
January 8th January to June 22nd, 2012 and every January
Primary Health Care is THE GREATEST need in the world today!
Learn about the character of God with an emphasis on God's heart for the poor and needy, and begin to understand the biblical mandate for works of mercy and Primary Health Care as described in the Good Samaritan.
Learn the skills of primary health care
Help to strengthen impoverished communities with adequate, safe, affordable and believable health care.
Be involved in mobile or already existing clinics
Train others with what you have learnt!!
Why would you want to be involved in primary health care? Because it IS the single greatest need in the world today aside from the sharing of the gospel!
Its needed for unreached areas!
Its needed because of poverty!
Its needed because 40,000 children die every day!
Its needed because women die in child birth
Its needed because in many countries people only live till the age of 45!
Its needed because 4 people are infected with the HIV/AIDS virus every minute!
Its needed because as little as 30-50% of the population have no access to health services at all.
"I came to do my Primary Health care School in 1998, because I wanted to help the poor…I wanted to do something…not just words but actions…I wanted to demonstrate God's love." (Nirina, from Madagascar, leader of the Compassion DTS)
YOU WILL LEARN ABOUT....
Diagnosing and treating basic and preventable illness
Water problems
sanitation
Food issues
Malnutrition
Women's health
Major diseases and their prevention
Respiratory illness, the biggest killer in the world today
Health education
community health
eye care and testing
setting up a clinic
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