Our Programs
Surgical Access for Everyone (SAFE)
African Mission Healthcare’s Surgical Access for Everyone (SAFE) program allows generous donors like you to sponsor life-changing individual surgeries for people facing extreme poverty in Africa. The impact of your compassion is immediate.
288,000,000 Africans are living with untreated surgical conditions
Millions of people who need surgery across sub-Saharan Africa cannot access it, due to poverty, lack of trained staff and equipped hospitals, or both. Some of the most commonly needed operations in Africa include C-sections, orthopedic surgery, hernia repair, and burn treatment.
- 80% of women in rural Uganda who require a C-section cannot get one.
- 85% of African children need surgery before the age of 15.
- More than 95% of children in Africa lack access to surgical care.
- 1 in 25 deaths in Africa could be prevented with surgery.
Increasing access to surgery across Africa
African Mission Healthcare sponsors SAFE surgeries at 14 hospitals in 5 nations. This effort involves more than 50 surgeons, 75 approved surgical procedures, and training for nearly 500 trainees, including surgical residents and anesthetists.
African Mission Healthcare has sponsored more than 40,000 surgeries.
Save a Life with One Gift
The Lancet Commission on Global Surgery has found that basic surgical care is as cost-effective as HIV treatment and bed nets for malaria prevention. You can change a life today.
- For $50, you can sponsor the supplies and medicine for surgery.
- For just $250, you can sponsor a C-section, saving a mother and child.
- For $500, you can repair a birth injury.
Every dollar matters. A gift of any amount can save lives.
Mabel waited three decades for healing.
After suffering a tissue injury while giving birth at age 19, Mabel sought in vain for a cure. She experienced years of pain, incontinence, and stigma. Thanks to the SAFE program and generous individuals like you, Dr. Priscilla Busingye, leader of the Ngnozi Nsa (Only Love) initiative for women's health in Uganda, was able to repair the birth injury. After decades of waiting, Mabel is finally free of this burden.
More Ways To Help
Africa faces a dire shortage of trained healthcare professionals, particularly in more advanced fields like surgery. African Mission Healthcare’s Mission Hospital Teaching Network is a group of like-minded mission hospitals committed to significantly expanding training capacity.
HIV remains a leading cause of death in Africa, right alongside a twin epidemic of tuberculosis. Your support helps train health workers and improve care.
Across Africa, just 5% of necessary surgeries are performed due to limited capacity. We are helping to change that reality.
Only 20% of Africa's hospitals and clinics can provide oxygen. Through O2 Africa, we are installing oxygen plants and distributing oxygen cylinders.
The L’Chaim Prize recognizes an outstanding Christian missionary serving in Africa and awards $500,000 for transformational medical projects.
Far too many African women and children die as a result of preventable causes, especially those related to pregnancy or childbirth. Your support can help change that.
