|
Serving More People Than Ever Before: 41,575 in 2025 Dear Friends and Supporters, If you have been reading this newsletter or keeping up with international news over the past couple of years, you will know that these are very challenging times for most people living in Nigeria. Severe economic challenges, ruinous inflation, especially in food prices, and an epidemic of violent banditry, kidnapping, and terrorist attacks on rural villages have all affected the poor most severely. These are the same people we are trying our best to serve. 
0 Comments
Four years ago, we began a planning process to build new clinics in the northwest of Nigeria. This area has some of the worst health-care indices in the entire country. We began by improving the human infrastructure through training local health-care workers and potential future employees.  Deborah began working as a volunteer on our medical missions in Kaduna Diocese when she was in her early twenties. During her college years, she earned both a Bachelor of Public Health from Osun State University in 2022 and a Master of Public Health from the University of Ibadan in 2025  In recent years, we have begun planning for a transition in leadership. Our founding generation of leaders are now in our mid-70s to early 80s. One member has recently passed away, and others have retired after many years of faithful service, for which we are deeply grateful. We are also thankful for our “retired but not tired” group of six board members, all of whom bring a lifetime of professional experience in business and healthcare.  Here is a summary of our outreach missions and mobile clinics in the first 10 months of 2025.  In every one of these outreaches, Kateri Medical Services works in partnership with local friends who have worked with us for many years. We provide the funds for medicine and medical consumables. The local partners recruit volunteer doctors, nurses, dentists and eye specialists. Our US team joins one of these outreaches each year.  Every year, we dedicate our December donations to our “New Horizon Fund” which is designated for salaries for our clinic employees. In 22 years, we have never missed a day in paying our faithful and heroic clinic workers.  Dear friend and supporters, The first verse of one traditional hymn declares “Love came down at Christmas” in the person of Jesus. The last verse of the hymn speaks of the transformative effect that Christmas can have on our lives and behavior: “Love shall be our token; love be yours and love be mine; love to God and neighbor, love for plea and gift and sign.”  Richard came to the outreach wearing a big hoodie and a dark and dejected look on his face. He had a very large and unsightly tumor attached to his ear and neck. The tumor was not cancerous and relatively easy for our surgeons to remove.  Picture of Richard and Fr. Tom |
NewsCategories
All
Archives
April 2026
|
RSS Feed
|
|
|
Financial Accountability 990 Forms:
|
© 2024 Kateri Clinic. All rights reserved.
Webdesign by PluginMatter.
Webdesign by PluginMatter.