Our
aim is to help key
students and junior doctors from resource-poor parts of Eastern Europe,
Asia and Africa to attend.
Previous
world congresses have played a major role in establishing Christian medical
fellowships all over the world as well as encouraging and equipping thousands
of individual Christian doctors and students to live and speak for Jesus
Christ.
Dr
Alex Bolek (right) is a young South Sudanese doctor who was helped with
travel and registration for the last World Congress in Uruguay 2010. Today he
is a key player in a major Sudanese mission project to develop an Institute of
Health Sciences to train healthcare workers in the Nile river town of Bor about
two hours' drive north of the Capital Juba. The project is a joint venture
between ICMDA, the Health Ministry of South Sudan and the Anglican Church.
Training is scheduled to start in June 2014.
500
Euros (£420) will fund one doctor or medical student for the whole week in
Rotterdam with accommodation provided free through host-families. A stringent
selection process (that includes feedback from national associations and
leaders) is in place to ensure that the right candidates get the bursary.
The
total target is $150,000 (~£95,000) and we are aiming to raise just over 20% of
that (£20,000) from CMF UK members and others in the UK. We have chosen this
target because ICMDA relies on CMF UK, as one of the largest of its 70 national
member organisations, for about 21% of its general income.
This
is a wonderful opportunity to invest in ICMDA's dream of 'a Christian medical
witness in every community, in every country'.
Please
give generously
and help us hit the target so that more like Alex can benefit
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