News and Updates

  • April 15th: HEAL Africa hospital full of patients from airline crash in Goma

    4/15/2008 1:13:04 PM

    Harper McConnell, volunteer worker at HEAL Africa, is right now trying to get more saline solution and tetanus vaccine for the many patients at HEAL AFRICA's hospital. The plane crash today in Goma has caused many casualties and has flooded HEAL Africa's hospital spaces.

  • Wiring Up the Hospital

    3/8/2008 8:52:06 PM

    This week has seen the hospital enter a new electronic age! Members of the Upper Room community in Minnesota have been in Goma to install networking and a new server that will better support the needs of the hospital and program teams. Internet and email access is today available only through a very slow satellite feed; email access will be greatly improved thanks to these new facilities.

Lumo

Lumo is a feature-length documentary film set in the HEAL Africa hospital in eastern Congo, where it follows a young Congolese woman on an uncertain road to recovery from rape.

Mission Statement

Our mission is to provide holistic care for the people of the Democratic Republic of Congo: training health professionals, strenghtening social activists and providing physical, spiritual and social healing.

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