Mark Lee: supporting medical students in Armenia Mark is a palliative care consultant in Newcastle . 'It all started at an ICMDA conference in 2001, when some medical students asked my prayer partner Chris Richards to run a summer camp in Armenia and he asked me to help....
Survey of overseas members Last year we surveyed online our members working overseas, to find out who they are, what they are doing, and how CMF could serve them better. Of the 103 respondents: 4% work with mission or church organisations; the remainder in government institutions, secular NGOs, private practice and research General...
It's so unfair. My children live in a comfortable house, eat three meals a day and have a friendly GP down the road – though they rarely need him. Today, thousands of children in Haiti are living in shelters made of cardboard and cloth, eat once a day if they...
Jim Harrison – providing specialist surgery I work at the Beit Cure International Hospital in Malawi, a slightly novel form of Christian mission setting. It's a specialist orthopaedic hospital where our main work is the surgical treatment of disabled children. They come from all over the country, often from...
'I've always wanted to work abroad but…' is a phrase I often hear from junior doctors who have moved from the carefree days of student electives into the harsh realities of postgraduate training and the Modernising Medical Careers system. Many have the impression that time out to work in developing...
P ray and act now – Zimbabwe is bleeding.' This was last November's cry for help from CMF Zimbabwe. They are in the midst of the worst cholera epidemic Africa has seen for 15 years, with over 89,000 cases reported, the death toll over 4,000. Cholera is a visible manifestation...
More than 2000 verses in the Bible speak about God's special concern for the poor. This map shows where the poor of the world's children are: territories have been resized according to the proportion of all deaths of children aged over 1 year and under 5 years old. [1] In...