Where we’ve helped
Bolivia El Salvador India Sierra Leone
Helping people in Sierra Leone
2010: ERRF provied quarterly grants to Mercy Ships for the medical mission of “Africa Mercy” at the port of Freetown. With 6 operating theatres and 78 patient beds, it is the world’s largest charity hospital ship with a crew of over 400 volunteers from 40 countries. During the 10-month visit, staff performed over 7,000 specialized surgeries and 50,000 other medical procedures.
A large percentage of cases involve children. Medical procedures are for tumor removal, cleft lip and palate corrections, cataract removal, orthopedics, and dentistry. The needs in Sierra Leone are great following an 11-year civil war. Infant mortality is over 12%, and life expectancy is only 48 years. There is 1 physician per 50,000 people, and 1 dentist per 1,000,000.
Helping people in Bolivia
2010: Emergency Relief Response Fund sent an emergency grant to World-Wide Missions Bolivia to pay for hospitalization and open-heart surgery for Ruben Rocha Peinado, M.D., field director, who had suffered a heart attack.
Helping people in El Salvador
2010: ERRF shipped a 40-ft sea container filled with medical supuplies to Fundacion Nuevos Horizontes Para Los Pobres in Ciudad Delgado, San Salvador, to benefit families and needy children with hospital care. Included were 9 pallets of hospital/surgical linens and 14 pallets of general medical/surgical supplies. The shipment had a total fair market value of $483,000.
Helping people in Haiti
ERRF shipped four 40-ft sea containers filled with building materials to Missionaries of the Poor and Feed My Sheep in Port-au-Prince to benefit families impacted by the 7.0-magnitude earthquake of January 12, 2010. Included were 67 pallets of new tile flooring to assist in reconstruction efforts.
“Pure and lasting religion in the sight of God our Father means that we must care for orphans and widows in their troubles, and refuse to let the world corrupt us” —James 1:27, New Living Translation