Ampasinambo is near the East coast of Madagascar. We usually combine this MMS with one to Sahakevo, over a two-week period. The team left Tana on Saturday April 15th. For this mission, we collaborated with the Lutheran and the Catholic Church of Ampasinambo. They led the message every morning before the activity. We were 7…
Sahakevo is in a remote eastern coastal region, and regularly suffers from the devastating effects of storms and cyclones coming in from the Indian Ocean. Our MMS The team consisted of 12 people, but because of the weight, the plane can only carry 7 people with a pastor from MAF. Therefore some of the…
19 of our great MMS team were in Ambatolahy last week for the first MMS of 2023. Starting with a service of blessing as usual, they saw over 540 people, including 33 surgical operations (appendix, cysts, hernias, abcesses). Some had been waiting for 2 days; others had travelled 70km to be there. All went well…
MS Nosy Varika took place from October3rd to 7th 2022. This is is a community on the East coast of Madagascar, hit hard by the cyclones in January 2022.
Our MMS in Ambatolahy, 2 days drive from Tana near the west coast of Madagascar, was a great success.
Our team carried out a record number of interventions, partly due to the unique benefit of having two rooms to do surgical operations simultaneously.
A new gold mining quarry is being built an 8 hour walk from Ampasinambo and the men have gone there to find work.
MMS Ankavandra took place from August 8th to August 12th, with a team of 7 Medical Staff and 2 Pastors. Although the mission started with some problems with overloaded power generators, good cooperation with the Authorities and locals meant that the equipment was soon in place. Pastors minister to a new believer following a medical…
This is Frenclain, a 4 year old child seen at this week’s MMS in Mangabe. He has hydrocephalus and some signs of paralysis..
Our departure for Marolambo was delayed by 3 hours because of bad weather, there were a lot of clouds and we had a hard time landing too, but thank God we arrived safely. When we arrived, it was raining heavily and it was very cold, but that didn’t stop our team from installing equipment and…
Jandoy had been told to expect a baby in June 2021. By the time the HoverAid medical mission arrived in Sahakevo in May 2022 there were concerns that the baby was somewhat overdue! Fortunately with the aid of our portable scanner we were able to diagnose an ovarian cyst filled with approximately 7 litres of water.…