Healing Hands International - International Aid and Humanitarian Relief

Sister Humanitarian Aid & Relief Organizations

International Health Care Foundation
www.ihcf.net

African Christian Hospital Foundation (ACHF) was formed in 1965 to help support the work of the Nigerian Christian Hospital. The name was changed in 1998 to International Health Care Foundation (IHCF) to reflect the fact that programs are now sponsored in the Caribbean and South America as well as in Africa.

The primary goals of IHCF have been to promote, support and coordinate medical evangelism among the Churches of Christ. Facilities sponsored by IHCF continue to serve as centers for evangelism and strengthening of local churches. IHCF has also promoted medical evangelism through a scholarship program providing scholarship of Nigerian medical and nursing students by individual Christians and churches of Christ in the United States.

Christian Relief Fund
www.christianrelieffund.org

Founded in 1971, Christian Relief Fund is dedicated to following Christ’s example of ministering to human needs. In particular, CRF is dedicated to feeding the hungry, healing disease and heartbreak, fighting ignorance and poverty through education and preaching the Gospel through word and deed.

Through CRF’s child sponsorship program, needy children in 22 countries are provided food, clothing, medical care, education and Bible training. CRF also responds to world-wide emergency needs.

Churches of Christ Disaster Relief Effort
www.disasterreliefeffort.org

The Churches of Christ Disaster Relief Effort immediately responds to any major disaster in the continental United States by sending truckloads of emergency food, water, cleaning, and other supplies to disaster victims. Since 1991, the organization has distributed more than $35 million in emergency food and supplies to disaster victims in 35 states.

Health Talents International
www.healthtalents.org

Sponsored by the churches of Christ, Health Talents International (HTI) is a foundation which was organized to promote and support medical missions. Established in 1973 in Birmingham, AL. HTI (www.healthtalents.org) has been involved in medical evangelism in Guatemala, Belize and more recently, in Nicaragua.

The purpose of HTI has been threefold:

To support and promote medical evangelism sponsored by the churches of Christ
To provide opportunities for medical professionals in the U.S. to exhibit their expertise in third-world countries
To train and support health promoters in their own countries

Partners in Progress
www.partnersinprogress.org

Sponsored by the Sixth and Izard Church of Christ of Little Rock, AR, Partners in Progress (PIP) has been organizing medical teams for short-term medical missions since 1980. Teams organized by PIP have traveled to more than 30 countries in Africa, Asia, the Caribbean, Central and South America and Eastern Europe. The work of PIP has been summarized as follows: “Our thrust has been medical evangelism projects and relief efforts, whether we were taking food to feed the Christians in Poland or feeding orphans and establishing churches in Romania or treating the sick and evangelizing in Laos, Vietnam or South America. Our teams have shared Christ.”

Rapha International
www.raphainternational.org

Based in the Dallas/Ft. Worth, TX metroplex area, Rapha International is a three-year-old non-profit organization overseen by board members of sponsoring churches of Christ. Similar to HHI, Rapha International serves as a facilitator between resources and needs. After reusable and surplus medical supplies are collected they are then shipped to hospitals and clinics in developing countries throughout the world. Shipments from Rapha International have been sent to Europe, Zambia, North Korea and Nicaragua.

White’s Ferry Road Relief Ministries
www.wfrchurch.org

"Bringing hope in times of disaster" is the focus of WFR Relief Ministries, which is under the oversight of the WFR (White's Ferry Road) Church of Christ in West Monroe, Louisiana. Food and other emergency relief supplies have been delivered to people in disaster situations - floods, earthquakes, famines, etc. -around the world since 1981. WFR Relief was one of the first organizations allowed to take food to the starving people in Poland in the early 1980's. The ministry has worked through local churches of Christ in some 50 countries. Hope takes many forms, but the focus is on supplying the immediate and basic needs of food, water, medical supplies, and most important, showing the love of Christ for all people. Over the years WFR has learned how to partner with both government and other relief organizations to provide local churches with the maximum resources available in the most efficient manner. In many cases disaster supplies can be obtained without cost when WFR Relief Ministries provides funds for transportation, administration and communications support. We see this as God multiplying the gifts of Christians to His Glory.

The Malawi Project
www.malawiproject.org

The Malawi Project Inc. is a 501c3 not-for-profit charitable organization composed of a group of people in the United States of America who have combined their resources and energies to supply much needed medical supplies and health care to the sub-Sahara nation of Malawi. Additionally, members of the Project engage in various other projects that will lead to the well being and economic development of the people of Malawi.

Global Samaritan Resources

www.globalsam.org/joomla/index.php

Global Samaritan Resources, based in Abilene, TX, seeks to assist missionaries and Christian workers by providing supplies and equipment for relief of human suffering and to support mission efforts. GSR gathers the surplus of America’s medical, educational , agricultural supplies and equipment and ships to more that fifteen countries in Latin America, Africa and Ukraine. Food grants are occasionally obtained for disaster stricken countries. Further, GSR provides consultation relative to clinic/hospital administration, water management and agriculture. We have unique U.S. governmental contacts and grants which allow us to tap significant supplies of government surplus. We work both in the United States and overseas and seek additional contacts/partners in additional countries.