Celebrating your impactin 2013

IMPACT REPORTEMMS International Review

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Your Impact Report

That night saw the launch of the Mziche project. You can read in this report Memory’s encouraging story of how that project is helping.

“Sympathy is no substitute for action.” This truth, attributed to Dr David Livingstone, is a stark reminder that hurting people need us to be moved by compassion to do something.

This Impact Report celebrates people like you, people who are moved by compassion, and the life-giving fruits of their efforts. The stories shared here are your stories - they are the stories of every generous supporter and

every faithful healthcare partner.So, please join me in giving thanks

for new life at Chinchpada with the building work now completed; for people receiving the care they need; and for lives being rebuilt.

Thank you for the part you play in making this happen. I pray that you are encouraged to persevere at this good work.

Every blessing,

James M WellsChief Executive

On the 13th November 2013 hundreds of people attended The Livingstone Debate in Glasgow Cathedral. The event was a reminder of our continuing responsibility to people struggling in poverty and poor health.

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4 Life-changing: Memory’s Story

6New Life at Chinchpada

8 Life-saving: Rushila’s Story

12Life-giving: Seema’s Story

10Empowering People

16Finance Report

Contents

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Life-changing: Memory’s Story

Babies are being born without HIV thanks to your support of the Mziche project. Your help also means expectant mothers, like Memory, have someone to turn to for help when they are living with HIV.

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“ ”‘Reality comes when the two lines on the test strip

confirm you are HIV positive. I could not swallow the lump in my throat,’ said Memory Kaunda.

Memory is 24 years old and lives in Mzenga, in the north of Malawi.

She had three children when her husband left her to raise them by herself. When she fell pregnant again, she attended an antenatal clinic and it was then she found out she has HIV. The thought of being HIV+, divorced and pregnant tortured her. She considered herself useless, a failure and an irresponsible mother.

“I needed someone to confide in but, with the stigma and discrimination, I couldn’t even tell my family. When Enisa came, a Mother Buddy, I told myself, ‘This is the friend you need’. I explained everything to her and she gave me the encouragement and advice I needed.

“She used her own story to emphasise how important positive living is and why I should always be on antiretroviral therapy, especially now that I am pregnant. The thought of having an HIV negative baby like hers excited me and made me take responsibility.”

Memory gave birth to a baby girl, she is awaiting the results of her HIV test. Thankfully, Memory knows that, whatever the outcome, she has a friend to lean on for the help she needs.

“Even after the birth of my baby, Gertrude, Enisa has never stopped visiting me and giving me words of encouragement. She is like a mother to me, more than a friend. I thank her for my life”, concluded Memory.

“I now know stopping taking ARVs was a journey to condemning my children to orphanhood and poverty. I sincerely thank Mziche for giving us friends like Mother Buddies.”

30 Churches fighting stigma and helping people living with HIV.

20Mother Buddies supporting other women.

She is like a mother to me, more than a friend. I thank her for my life.

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New life at ChinchpadaThanks to your help, building works are now complete at Chinchpada Hospital and the local community has been given a fresh start. We celebrate the faithfulness of all involved in seeing this to completion. The team at Chinchpada is also being given new life, with the arrival of new doctors to lead work there.

As the building reached completion, so did the long and faithful service of Drs Gahukamble. They have finally been able to hang up their stethescopes thanks to the kind gifts that have saved this

hospital. They leave a great legacy of care, and will be succeeded by another husband and wife team. Doctors Deepak and Ashita will be arriving in Chinchpada soon with their two children Arnav (9) and Tara (7).

Ready for the challenge, they share their thoughts on moving to Chinchpada and the future there:

“Moving to Chinchpada was easy in many ways as we have always wanted to be in a mission hospital, have worked there in the past, and know the people and the immense need there. It’s also difficult. We

New operating theatre in action

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were hoping to go back to the hospital in Tezpur. Now we have to let go of that beautiful place where we had spent seven years, and seen God’s goodness in its growth and ours during that time.

“When we were asked if we would move to Chinchpada, we took some time, but eventually were convinced that this was where God wanted us to go. We feel the excitement in our hearts building up as our time to go there approaches. We know this is a gift from God.

“The new facilities are very good. We are looking forward to starting with a clean slate and also to involvement with the community and the church.

“The facilities will also add to the credibility of the hospital in the eyes of government authorities.

It will be a welcoming sign for those who are sick, anxious and afraid - those who need it most.

“The staff and patients enjoy the bright, cheerful environment provided. It is now easier for us to maintain cleanliness and provide quality care, with a special focus on the poor and needy that we have the privilege of serving.

“We would like to thank EMMS International’s supporters who have given generously for this cause. We hope that you will continue to pray for the work to flourish at Chinchpada hospital. Please pray especially that we will be sensitive and obedient to His leading and direction in all things concerning Chinchpada as we begin life there.”

Thank you.

Drs Gahukamble during renovation; Drs Deepak & Ashita with Arnav and Tara

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people, like Rushila, can now rely upon Chinchpada Hospital.

294,084

Patients and new facilities at Chinchpada

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Life-saving: Rushila’s StoryYour support has helped save Chinchpada Christian Hospital, so that people like Rushila have somewhere to go in their times of greatest need.

Building on this, your help is needed at Madhipura Hospital where rotting buildings and a lack of staff put its future in jeopardy. Find out more at www.emms.org/madhipura.

Rushila was thrilled with the arrival of her baby daughter, but she didn’t have long to cherish those moments.

She had given birth at home and lost a lot of blood. She was rushed to hospital. Struggling to breathe and with severe swelling across her body, this new mother was in desperate need of help.

Just over 2 years ago, Chinchpada hospital was close to closure. Damp and derelict buildings were a threat to current patients and, without change, the doors looked set to close permanently. Thanks to your support, the hospital has been saved for the people in this remote area of Maharashtra.

As such, when Rushila was rushed to Chinchpada hospital there was a dedicated team and clean new facilities there to look after her. Rushila was given a blood transfusion and the care she needed to get back to full health. She returned home six days later as a healthy and happy mother.

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Empowering People

Inspiring Hope equips churches and volunteers to provide much needed support for those who are terminally ill. Your generous support is making this happen.

Produced by EMMS International, Inspiring Hope is a palliative care handbook. In communities without hospitals, hospices or health professionals, it helps those in need by helping them use the resources they do have - each other.

Since its launch in September 2013, the handbook has had an amazing reach and has been downloaded in 16 countries.

In his introduction to the book, Thabo Makgoba, Archbishop of Cape Town says, “In clear, tangible, down-to-earth ways, it assists church communities, leaders and members to understand more about palliative care and how we can best contribute.”

16countries

MalawiRwandaLesotho

Sri LankaChina

Hong KongThailand

IndonesiaUganda

KenyaNepal

TunisiaSouth Africa

SwazilandTanzania

UK

2 languages

EnglishChichewa

1,500 copies printed

In Malawi there simply aren’t enough doctors and nurses to meet the country’s needs. Healthcare professionals and volunteers are the lifeblood of all of our projects.

Inspiring Hope

To see Inspiring Hope for yourself, visit www.emms.org/inspiringhope.

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Training ProfessionalsIn Malawi there is one doctor for every 40,000

people. Healthcare staff are in desperately short supply. Clinical officers and nurse midwives are critical to filling this gap in care.

Clinical officers, with three years of medical training, are able to fulfill much of the role of a doctor, including carrying out caesarean sections.

Your support, along with that of the Scottish Government, is providing more than 100 additional healthcare workers each year through new courses for clinical officers and registered nurse midwives at Ekwendeni College of Health Sciences.

More than

20clinical officers

and

80 registered

nurse midwives

trained each year

Palliative care staff celebrating life

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Life-giving: Seema’s Story

Seema and a nurse from Lalitpur

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Seema, 24, lives with her family near Lalitpur, Uttar Pradesh, India. Her brother farms and her mother makes and sells baskets to provide for the family.

Their home is a mud hut that often needs repaired after the monsoon. Four years ago, Seema went to collect mud to repair the house. While she was bent over working, a large stone fell on her back, pinning her to the ground. When the rock was removed she was unable to move her legs.

Her brother took her to hospital where she learned that she had fractured her spine and would never walk again. They visited numerous doctors, spent much of their savings and searched tirelessly for someone to say she would recover.

They went home disheartened and overwhelmed, Seema would sit all day sewing clothes by hand.

The home care team from Lalitpur visited. Seema shared her dreams and desires from before the accident. She told them of the daily struggle her family faced to make ends meet.

They soon realised that she is very talented at sewing and gifted her a sewing machine that she can operate by hand. They also sourced a wheelchair so that she can get around the village on her own.

A delighted Seema has found new hope and motivation. She helps to support her family. The visits, prayers and support from the home care team have brought light into a life that has looked so dark for the past 4 years.

Seema is one of many who rely upon the home care teams you are helping to provide. Thanks to your support, she has been given the chance to rebuild her life.

a large stone fell on her back, pinning her to the ground

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Thank you

Inspiring Fundraisers

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28 Cycle

Malawi riders

72 runners, cyclists

& rowers

49 churches &

organisations

2,749 individual supporters

22,000 vulnerable people

helped directly

along with

including

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Incoming Resources 2013 2012Individual Giving 315,443 231,442Trusts & Foundations 45,026 203,977Church & Community Fundraising 44,603 40,541Overseas Events 142,982 63,753Other Events 15,885 7,127Legacies 113,187 199,863Institutional Funding 66,004 -Total Voluntary Income £743,130 £746,703

Rental income 14,682 15,809Other income 200 395Bank interest 234 440Investment income 100,021 118,090

Total Incoming Resources £858,267 £881,437

Voluntary Income

For every £1 given in 2013, 86p went to healthcare projects.

How your pound was spent

Individual Giving

Trusts & Foundations

Church & CommunityFundraising

Overseas Events

Other Events

Legacies

Institutional Funding

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Finance Report

Individual Giving

Trusts & Foundations

Church & CommunityFundraisingOverseas Events

Other Events

Legacies

Institutional Funding

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Programme Expenditure 2013 £638,575

Grants to India £351,239

Emmanuel Hospital Association £350,803Renovation at Chinchpada Christian Hospital £109,852Palliative Care at Lalitpur, Fatehpur, Dapegaon and Utraula £99,813Shalom HIV and AIDS clinic £75,216Maternal Health project at Prem Jyoti Hospital £39,947EHA Development and HR Research £10,183Mental health phone line £10,000Maternal & Child Health Nurse Training £3,483Duncan Hospital £1,009Other EHA hospitals £1,300

Other Grants to India £436

Grants to Malawi £268,440

Mziche Project, Livingstonia Synod AIDS Programme £75,141College of Nursing (Supported by the Scottish Government) £49,119Primary healthcare and palliative care at Mulanje Mission Hospital £38,235Livingstonia Synod Health Director £24,426Palliative Care Support Trust £18,625Essential Healthcare Package at Nkhoma Synod £18,598Capacity building of Church of Central Africa Presbyterian Synod of Livingstonia £18,100Palliative Care Handbook £12,111Embangweni Hospital Laundry Facilities £7,458Shipping goods overseas £4,362Palliative care at Ekwendeni Hospital £1,265Other Grants to Malawi £1,000

Hawthornbrae Palliative Care, UK £14,046Student Elective Bursaries £4,850

NB While there were no active projects in Nepal during 2013, work began in earnest with International Nepal Fellowship to develop a project to help mothers and babies in the Dang district. We look forward to sharing the impact of that project’s launch in the next Impact Report.

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Thank you

Our grateful thanks go to:All those who give of their own

time to volunteerEvery person responding to

appeals for supportThose who have committed to

regular gifts, helping us to plan our financial commitments

Prayer supporters who ensure all worker is held up before God

Supportive churches and community groups, in particular those who have chosen to become Mziche Mission Partners

Home money box supporters who diligently support our work penny by penny

Individuals who gather together in support of improving healthcare, like The Friends of Broadwell Christian Hospital and Friends of Duncan Hospital

Passionate individuals who tell others about our work

Enthusiasts and challengers who take part in events

Those who have remembered EMMS International in their will.

Trusts and grant-making organisations who partnered in our work this year: Scottish Government, Pollock Memorial Missionary Trust, The James McNab Trust, Medical Service Ministries, The St Lazarus Charitable Trust, Souter Charitable Trust, ECHO International Health Services, The Maple Trust, Radio Cracker Ballymena Ltd, Misses Robinson Charitable Trust, The Diana, Princess of Wales Memorial Fund, Andrew Anderson Trust and Forest Hill Charitable Trust.

The work celebrated in this report is your work. It is only possible because of your generous and faithful support. Whether given in time, money or prayer, your gifts are saving and transforming the lives of some of the world’s poorest people. Thank you.

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