One Safari Trip Changed My Life

 For Deacon Don his tourism safari trip to Uganda East Africa became much more than just a vacation. The safari grew into a divine long term calling leading to a life changing mission. 

How did the safari once concluded morph into a medical mission assignment? How did that second calling beyond service to a US parish deepen his faith and expand his ordained passion to serve?

Deacon Don sensed a prayerful calling and began trusting in God’s direction as he began pitching in helping dedicated nurse-midwives in Uganda save lives. His US based friends, family and church parishioners stepped in to help cover finances of this new mission. Together, alliance partnerships were formed to find resources and implement creative ways to keep struggling clinic doors open. 

The mission grew momentum as success brought forth sustainable ways of  delivering charitable access to urgent care especially for impoverished mothers and babies in need.

This financial US support carried the vibrant mission forward as local village medical personnel in some 30 other clinics treated over 100,000 needy patients a year unable to pay for treatment. Never feeling alone Deacon Don has mobilized hundreds of US volunteers and has been blessed by support from hundreds of financial investors forming a US based non profit: MAAPFoundation. (Microfinance Alliance Africa Projects Foundation) 

The MAAPFoundation board of directors with local Ugandan community leaders strive to expand access to charitable medical treatment reaching out beyond government failed attempts to meet the medical demands of Uganda’s 50 million people.