We have organized and conducted “Medical Outreach Missions” to Peru and Africa.

In 1996 and again in 1997, Sally S Ball, MD and Janet Ferguson, RN, conducted “Medical Missions” to Lima, Peru and Iquitos, Peru and provided medical to the indigent population.

In 1999, Sally S Ball, MD, Allan Cougle, MD, Janet Ferguson, RN, and Dianne Harris, RN, and staff, conducted a “Medical Outreach Mission” to Iquitos, Peru, and Lima, Peru. We donated our services, brought medicine, and medical supplies to provide medical care to those who otherwise would be unable to obtain medical care due to lack of its availability, or the inability to pay for that care. In Iquitos, Peru, we opened up the medical clinic to the whole city, and provided medical care for over 500 adults and children. We addressed their medical needs during the day and their spiritual needs in the evening.

 

 

More recently, we have completed four Medical Missions to Uganda, bringing doctors, nurses, medical staff, teachers, and evangelistic teams. In addition, Lazarus Momentum provided medicine and medical supplies to meet the medical needs of orphaned children and residents in rural areas free of charge.

The first Medical Mission to Africa, was in November, 2017, and lasted for 3 weeks. Sally S Ball MD, and Aubrey E Beck, RN, provided medical care to 194 children at three orphanages in Masaka, Uganda. Several of the children were extremely sick and could have died without medical intervention.

The second Medical Mission to Africa was in November, 2018, lasted two weeks, and was to an orphanage in Masaka, Uganda. Sally S Ball Md, Brenda Steudlein, RN, and Paul Steudlein brought medicine, and medical supplies providing medical care, and donating their services to meet the medical needs of the children. In addition to medical care, this year also instituted several preventative healthcare initiatives with subsequent on-going projects:

1. Hand-washing stations were created by Paul and Brenda Steudlein until a more permanent solution can be implemented.
2. Clean water for drinking and cooking is currently in process.
3. Toileting cleanliness with toilet paper roll holders in the latrine.
4. Cooking area cleanliness with need for improved duck and goat pens. These pens were built while our team was there. The pens still need improvements.
5. Four trash bins were purchased with a “Trash Brigade” that rounds two times a day.

The third Medical Mission to Africa was in August, 2019. In Masaka, Uganda, the medical team provided healthcare to residents of the city and the surrounding areas.

 

 

The fourth Medical Mission to Africa was in May, 2022 and lasted 2 weeks. Our medical  outreach was to Ssenje, Uganda and the remote villages, as well as to Masaka, Uganda and the remote villages around it.

Near Ssanje, we sponsored a medical clinic at Shalome Childrens’ Community providing healthcare to the school children as well as to the adults from the surrounding area that walked to the school to be seen by a doctor as well as medicine. Then we traveled to several remote villages around Ssenje to bring medical care to the Jajjas (elderly) and to the young children.

In Masaka, Uganda, we co-sponsored a medical camp for entire city of Masaka, Uganda working together with Joy Medical Centre and H-Save Sacco. The medical camp was held at Ku Ssenyange Public Primary School. We provided doctors, nurses, counselors, and medicine.

Lazarus Momentum also sponsored a medical camp at Kids Care school and Timothy House Orphanage. Again, we provided doctors, nurses, counselors, and medicine. The last task of the 2022 Medical Mission was to visit the Jajjas (elderly) in the remote villages around Masaka, Uganda, providing much needed medical care to those who were otherwise unable to get it. We gave out medicine, to treat diseases, and rice, sugar, soap, etc. to promote better health. Reaching the remote villages often required long walks and wading through creeks.

The fifth Medical Mission to Africa was in March, 2024 and lasted almost a month. We traveled to many cities and villages in Uganda and in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) providing medical care and reconnecting with the healthcare providers we support year-round.

We started in Uganda traveling from Entebbe to Kajjansi Airfield in Kajjansi, Uganda to meet with the leaders of Mission Aviation Fellowship (MAF). MAF is a world wide non profit that provides air transportation for many non-profit relief agencies. We discussed plans to use this airfield in the future as a home base for flying to various locations in Africa.

 

 

 

 

 

 

Then in Nakasongola, Uganda, Dr. Ibrahim’s village, we met with Dr Ibrahim’s family and addressed many medical issues of the village residents.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Next we traveled to Kiwoko Hospital in Lueero, Uganda to tour the regional surgery hospital in order to develop cooperation between Kiwoko Hospital Lazarus Momentum, Inc for future surgery referrals to that hospital.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

We then traveled to Sanje, Uganda.

We provided healthcare and medicine where needed, however there were fewer people that needed medical care due to the year-round care they have been receiving from Dr. Roy.

Dr. Ball spoke to a women’s group.

We inspected the goats and new goat pin being built. The goat milk provides desperately needed nutrition for babies and young children. As the herd in Sanje grows, we will be giving one male and two female goats to selected remote villages to care for.

 

 

 

 

 

 

Care baskets were assembled for the elderly and we visited the elderly in two villages near Sanje, Uganda.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Overnight camping on Bumogolo Mountain was a new experience for the team. It is the location of a primary school run by Kiymba Johnbosco.

We treated the younger children for intestinal worms.  This is a necessary treatment that is needed every two months due to the lack of clean water.

Back in the van for another road trip brought us to Masaka, Uganda.

We visited the elderly in 20 of the 28 remote villages around Masaka that Dr. Nicholas provides healthcare and medicine all year for the elderly. As a result, the patients were in much better health than in 2022 when we visited last. Dr. Nicholas and Dr. Vicki are doing an amazing job all year long.

Several village leaders have agreed to care for three goats in order to provide a local source of goat milk for the babies.

The next stop for the 2024 Africa Medical Mission trip was the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC). We traveled by van to Entebbe, Uganda, By Airplane to Cyangugu, Rwanda, by taxi to the border, and then walked across the bridge into Bukavu, DRC.

Our mission in Bukavu was to consider opening a free medical clinic for abused and abandoned women and their children who live on the street. Often when a married women is raped in the DRC, her husband divorces her and their children, and kicks them out on the street without any financial support. Josette Zahinda started a nonprofit organization, “My Child and Me”, that provides transition housing, food, and training for them. The women receive a diploma after completing a year long education which enables them to make their own living.

They are taught how to read and write, cooking, sewing, soap making, and basket weaving.

Lazarus Momentum, Inc was able to purchase the medical equipment, medical supplies, office equipment, and the medicine required by the government to open a free, year-round medical clinic for the ladies and their children.

We met with, and worked with Dr. Neema Byalungwe Nelly who has agreed to provide full time medical care. Lazarus Momentum, Inc. sends grants each month to pay her salary and to purchase medicine for the patients at the clinic in Bukavu, DRC.

The next stop on our 2024 Africa medical mission trip was Walugu, DRC where “My Child and Me has another outreach program. The trip to Walungu was difficult. It was a two hour trip on a muddy, hole filled road. The return trip was even more challenging after the rain shower. We saw patients and dispensed medicine.

After another two hours in the

 

Lazarus Momentum, Inc. is funded by contributions from the participants of the “Medical Outreach Missions”, and from generous contributions from friends, family, and the general public. 100% of all funds donated to Lazarus Momentum are used for the benefit of our outreach program recipients and not to pay founders salaries or their trip expenses. All Medical Mission participants pay their own way or raise their own funds. Money donated for a specific purpose will be used for that purpose.