| Faith-based ministries and missionaries are | | | | Catholic Church Helps with Medical and Healthcare |
| volunteering in Africa. They are flocking to third world | | | | Services |
| countries to help with much needed aid and relief | | | | Nuns and priests from the Catholic Church volunteer |
| (both monetary relief and physical labor). Large | | | | and provide much-needed medical and healthcare in |
| church groups made up of ministers, families, and | | | | local village clinics. They tend to the sick, assist with |
| teenagers have made it their mission to help those | | | | childbirth and make house calls to sick families. |
| less fortunate than themselves. | | | | The Catholic Church also sends aid money to third |
| These faith-based ministries and groups offer a | | | | world countries to help improve medical facilities and |
| beacon of light to impoverished countries that don't | | | | hospitals. The Catholic Church has generously donated |
| have the money, labor resources and medical | | | | thousands of dollars to Africa, especially helping |
| expertise to help improve their living conditions. | | | | children who are malnourished and are in desperate |
| These groups offer friendship, support and a shoulder | | | | need of medical attention and proper nutrition. |
| to cry on to those who need help in Africa. | | | | Faith-Based Ministries Send Message of Positive Hope |
| Groups Volunteering in Africa Repair Roads and | | | | Faith-based ministries and church groups send |
| Improve Sanitation | | | | messages to people in Africa that they care and |
| Many church groups and missionaries bring along | | | | want to make their lives better. By assisting them |
| carpenters, maintenance repair workers and | | | | with rebuilding efforts and helping to improve their |
| architects. Their mission includes rebuilding roads, | | | | way of life, they are spreading their message of faith |
| schools, and homes that have been ravaged by | | | | and love. |
| floods and poor conditions. | | | | Faced with squalid and impoverished conditions, |
| Water sanitation experts lend their expertise and help | | | | faith-based ministries offer a light to those who feel |
| improve sanitation and drinking water systems. Many | | | | they can't make it and have given up hope. Many |
| infectious diseases found in third world countries are | | | | faith-based ministries offer a sense of hope and |
| a result of contaminated water and sanitation | | | | belief during times of conflict, disease and strife. |
| systems. | | | | |