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Friendship and Medical Trips

Medical Outreach Care

Medical Outreach Clinics

In March 2023, a team of US health providers will team up with Malawian clinicians to provide care in a remote area of Malawi, Africa.

You can help provide medicines and supplies.

Medical Outreach Clinics

You can help provide medicines and supplies.

Contributions to Villages in Partnership are tax-deductible to the extent permitted by law. VIP is a registered 501(c)(3) nonprofit with tax ID number is 45-2442802.


We run several outreach clinics, make home visits, do extensive teaching on burns–which is the #1 cause of childhood deaths–and work to treat HIV and malaria.
Our clinics operate without running water or electricity, and we work from sun-up to sundown. The last medical team served over 7,000 villagers.

Help provide supplies and medicines.

For questions about donating physical items, contact Lucy Goeke.

Equipment and Supplies Needed
  • Furniture and Equipment
  • Ace Bandages
  • Backpacks
  • Bandage scissors and hemostats (*stainless steel only)
  • Batteries AAA, AA C, D (*rechargeable only)
  • Battery/solar Lights (*small portable)
  • Black markers
  • Blankets
  • BP Machines/Cuff – manual and digital
  • Clean catch urine
  • Clothes, all sizes, clean and in good condition
  • Coban
  • Condoms
  • Cups with lids for dispensing liquid meds
  • Drawstring Bags for home visits, farm, and staff gifts
  • Flip flops/shoes in all sizes, in good condition
  • Garbage bags (large outdoor)
  • Gauze
  • Hospital equipment like kidney dishes (all must be stainless steel so they can be sterilized)
  • I & D kits
  • Jogging strollers
  • Kerlix
  • Oral Syringes
  • Penlights
  • Pens
  • Petroleum jelly
  • Pregnancy tests
  • Scales, nondigital, MUST have kg (x4)
  • School supplies – colored pencils, notebooks, pens, pencils
  • Oral Syringes
  • Penlights
  • Pens
  • Petroleum jelly
  • Pregnancy tests
  • Scales, nondigital, MUST have kg (x4)
  • School supplies – colored pencils, notebooks, pens, pencils
Medicines Needed
  • Acetaminophen (Children’s liquid/syrup or tablets)
  • Antibiotic Ointment
  • Bacitracin/Neosporin
  • Calamine Lotion
  • CHG Scrub or wipes (Chlorhexidine)
  • Children’s multivitamins (NO GUMMIES)
  • Clotrimazole/antifungal cream
  • Diphenhydramine (Children’s and Adult)
  • Eye drops (Visine, Clear Eye, Refresh)
  • Famotidine
  • Ibuprofen (children’s liquid/syrup or tablets)
  • Ibuprofen (adults – 500 to 1000 tablets/bottle)
  • Probiotics
  • Silvadene Cream
  • TUMS (large bottles of 500-1000)
  • White ointment (Zinc Oxide)


Making a large gift?

Using one of the methods below can help us avoid fees, making the most of every penny toward sustainable, relational development in Malawi.


Checks can be made payable to Villages In Partnership and mailed to:

PO Box 52
Allentown, NJ 08501


Stock gifts go a long way toward our mission. Email us here to request brokerage information.


Donor-Advised Funds are an easy and effective way to give.
If you have an account with Fidelity, Schwab, or BNY Mellon, you can request a gift from your account via DAF Direct.

DAFDirect
Any DAF account can be used by providing the following information to your fund:

Legal Name: Villages In Partnership, Inc
Federal Tax ID: 45-2442802
Mailing Address: PO Box 52, Allentown, NJ 08501


Our Faithfulness to You & the Communities We Serve

Your gift is a sacred trust. We promise to honor your generosity and use your donation in the most effective way to serve the villages in Malawi. Donations will be used where they are needed most, according to specific priorities set by village leadership and the VIP Staff in Malawi. For example, when you support medical outreach teams, a portion of the gift may help provide supplies, medicines, or other related essentials as needed.

God’s Timing in the Villages – By Liz Heinzel-Nelson

November 2, 2020 by Carissa Rea Leave a Comment

The land cruiser bounced over the dusty roads, jostling Violet and me as we drove into the hazy morning sky covering the villages. We picked up Heswick, an orphan who was identified by our Malawian staff members as vulnerable, to take him to the clinic to have his wound redressed. The clinic asked us to bring more wound care supplies since they were out. 

The nurse who regularly dresses Heswick’s wound gently stripped off the old bandages and carefully washed the wound. There were some granules around the edge of the wound and I asked what they were. “That’s sugar,” the nurse informed me. “We like to use honey because honey keeps the scar tissue from hardening, but we don’t have honey so we use sugar.” Not certain that sugar is a good substitute but “I have honey. I just bought honey from the VIP Beekeepers’ Cooperative. Would you like to use my honey?” Vi ran to the car and brought in the unopened bottle of golden salve. Who knew? Yet another wonder of honey.

The wound is healing, the bandage is changed. We were right on time for my meeting with the VIP staff. We all got into the land cruiser when Vi came around and poked her head in my window. “Amayi, they want to see you inside.” I followed Vi into the maternity ward. There was a mother trying to get her 2-week-old to nurse but the infant child lay in her mother’s arms struggling to breathe. The nurse asked if we would rush the mom and baby to Zomba Central Hospital since this kind of case is beyond their capabilities. 

I wove over and around unavoidable bumps along the dusty roads, occasionally hearing a groan from the back as we hit a big one. We arrived at the hospital and escorted them to the entrance where a nurse took them to the infant’s ward. As we jumped back into the Land Cruiser to head to the meeting, now an hour late, I asked Vi, if we had not been there that morning, what would have happened to that baby? She quietly answered, that’s when death comes. Everyone understands here when you arrive late. Things happen in Malawi. 

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