Dignified Living

Safe Structures

We take a front seat in meeting the physical, material, and spiritual needs of people around the world. Building safe structures is part of our mission to provide sustainable environments for people to grow in. We have built medical clinics, water wells, dining halls, orphanages, community centers, and rebuilt schools. Safe structures are vital to the longevity of a community. Not only do they protect people from the elements but when you have a place to grow together safely it enriches the whole world.

We have built safe structures around the world in India, the United States, Ghana, Democratic Republic of Congo, Kenya, Philippines and other parts of the world to keep people safe from rain, dust, traffic, and even provide medical care. In Ghana and Kenya, water wells provide safe and clean drinking water essential for good health. In India and Ghana, school children no longer need to eat outside (rain or shine). They have covered dining halls where they can eat regardless of weather. Simple things such as bathrooms for school children are now a reality in places like Mexico and India. A medical clinic in Yiwabra allows people to be cared for instead of traveling for miles to get to the nearest hospital. Community centers serves a variety of purpose for entire community to gather and work collectively towards improving their situation.You can make a difference in the world by exploring the many countries (below) in Dignified Living and being part of the opportunity to make a difference in however way you can.

Medical Support

In today’s world, it is hard to fathom that there are still countries in which tens of thousands of children die each year due to easily treatable and preventable diseases. In many third-world areas, people have virtually no access to medical care. For some, it would take hours- even days- to walk unpaved  roads to find the nearest medical clinic. At Catholic World Mission, we see it as our God-given duty to alleviate the suffering due to illness that could have been so easily prevented.

Short-term medical clinics are imperative to the health of people in these areas. Catholic World Mission partners with donors and Helping Hands Medical Missions to support short-term missions around the world. Additionally, it has been our privilege to ship cargo containers of medicines and supplies to impoverished areas in Ghana, Nigeria, Guatemala, Honduras, and the Philippines to help supply short-terms missions and  stock hospitals in the area. Antibiotics, surgical and testing equipment, hospital beds and more are in such desperate need. In partnership with the local people and another non-profit we built a clinic in Yiwabra, Ghana to assist with short and long-term medical needs of the people.

The math is simple: we have so much here, and they have so little. Sharing the wealth requires a concerted, coordinated effort to secure the gift-in-kind, and fund the overseas shipments. Our shipments have helped thousands of people receive medical care, and possibly avert life-threatening disease.

Doctors and medical professionals volunteering their time

Medical Mission volunteers collaborated with full-time lay missionaries, or Evangelizadores de Tiempo Completo (ETCs), on a trip this past July to offer aid to some of the poorest and most remote areas of Chiapas, Mexico. The effort was authorized by the Archbishop of Tuxtla Gutierrez and coordinated through the local parishes.

About 900 residents of Copainala, Coapilla and Ocotopec were treated by volunteer doctors, nurses and even an orthodontist. ETC and volunteer missionaries offered spiritual guidance and support for these people, many of whom are suffering due to poverty and lack of health care.