A woman waits with her child at the dispensary.

The Langano Health Program in Ethiopia officially provides low cost medical care to more than 10,000 people in the Lake Langano area. The program consists of traditional curative health care and laboratory services, as well as preventive health measures. Preventative services include vaccinations, mother/child health care, family planning, providing local clean water sources, building latrines and other community health programs. Because the Langano area is drought-prone, a nutrition program is in place to screen children under five for signs of malnutrition. SIM works with these needy children and their families to bring them back to health by providing high protein supplements.

A branch of the Langano health program also fosters orphaned newborns whose mothers have died during their infancy. For a period of six to seven months, temporary foster care is offered to these infants until they are able to drink well from a sipper cup and eat table food.

These programs have been effective in opening new doors of opportunity to share the gospel with the people of Langano.

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