Teaching for Transformation

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In rural Nepal, extreme poverty and oppression have kept millions of women from accessing basic medical support. Stigmas prevent them from speaking up about their chronic pain, and many die from silent suffering that’s often treatable or preventable.

At first, our partner met immediate needs by distributing feminine hygiene kits and health training for women to learn about how God designed their bodies. Since then, it has grown into something far more robust, addressing even deeper needs that impact entire communities.

Expanding a Dream

Our partner, Maya*, has a passion for teaching women’s health and economics in Nepal. Blending her passions, she now leads medical teams that bring women’s health camps and the hope of the Gospel to extremely rural villages in Nepal. Our partners break cultural stigmas by serving marginalized women, often traveling long distances across mountains and rivers to reach them. The health camps treat common gynecological issues such as uterine prolapse—a weakening of the pelvic floor. This condition is painful, highly preventable, and often curable, yet it affects 10% of Nepali women in childbearing years. The camps also provide life-saving cancer screenings and arrange emergency transport for anyone who requires further treatment or surgery.  

Witness the Transformation

As part of the health education, women hear about a God who loves them, seeks out the untouchable, and created their bodies with divine purpose. Long-standing stigmas are shattering alongside this teaching. For the first time, women are seeing themselves differently and caring for each other’s needs. Now, the women boldly share this news with their husbands and children. Entire families are becoming healthier as women share about common health issues, hygiene practices to prevent disease, and God’s design. Each family continues to improve the overall well-being of the entire village.

Our first women’s health camp this year brought critical healing and transformation to a rural village in Nepal. Your continued generosity helps marginalized women reclaim their health and wellbeing. Together, we’re breaking stigmas and bringing life-saving care to women who would otherwise go without, creating powerful change for generations to come.

(*Name has been changed to protect the privacy of this individual.)