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Medical Home Visits

In remote and rural areas, the nearest clinic or hospital can be hours away — and often out of reach when illness strikes. So our team goes directly to the family, visiting people in their own homes to offer care, prayer, and personal attention.

Rural Mozambique Fund a Home Visit
Lourenço, one of our medical team members, listening to a young boy's chest with a stethoscope during a home visit in rural Mozambique
Rural MozambiqueCaring for a patient during a home visit

The need

Illnesses like malaria are treatable and survivable — yet in remote areas, the nearest clinic or hospital can be hours away, and the cost of getting there may be out of reach. Families sometimes lose loved ones to conditions that basic, timely care could have prevented.

What we do

Rather than wait for families to reach care, our team goes to them through personal medical visits in people's own homes. These visits focus on remote communities where most families have no clinic or hospital nearby.

During each visit, the team sits with the patient — and often the whole family — to listen, understand the symptoms, and determine what kind of care is needed. When we can treat the illness directly, such as malaria, we provide the needed medication on the spot. When a case requires more than we can offer, we help connect the family with the right care and, when possible, assist them in reaching it.

Time, never a hurry

Like everything we do, these visits are relationship driven. Our team is never rushing to the next house — they stay, listen, answer questions, encourage, pray, and simply be present with people. Often the care that matters most is the sense that someone came, sat down, and was in no hurry to leave.

Prevention through health education

Every visit includes practical health teaching — hygiene, prevention, nutrition, and the early warning signs of common illnesses — so families are better equipped to protect their health long after we have gone.

Care and prayer together

Every visit pairs care with ministry. People are seen, treated, and prayed for — cared for in body and spirit, right in their own home.

Sometimes the difference between life and loss is simply someone who shows up.

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From the field

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3,950+patients attended to since we began in late 2020
250estimated lives spared from preventable death
In-homevisits, meeting people in their own homes
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Lourenço, one of our medical team members, listening to a young boy's chest with a stethoscope during a home visit in rural Mozambique
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