M4M began on a single trip in 2019 when our founders, a nurse and a physician working in Tennessee, spent three weeks shadowing a Sports Outreach Institute team in rural western Uganda.
They came home and couldn't sleep. The equipment they had packed was exhausted in four days. The clinic they visited ran out of paracetamol before the second week. Local nurses were brilliant and under-resourced, and the patients kept walking miles to see them anyway.
The first fundraiser was a potluck in a church hall that netted $4,200. Seven years later we are a registered 501(c)(3) with a board, an operations manager in Kampala, and a partnership agreement with DAVENPORT that lets us move supplies through proper channels.
What we believe
We believe that medicine is most effective when it is local, lasting, and accompanied by the deep spiritual healing we believe we all find in Christ. We do not choose between clinical rigor and faith — the communities we serve do not separate them, and neither do we.
We believe the nurse already in the village knows more than the team flying in. Our job is to equip her, not replace her.
We believe every gift is a specific action, and we will tell you exactly what your gift did.
Partners
Sports Outreach Institute — our primary on-ground partner since 2019. All field work is coordinated through their network of Ugandan staff.
DAVENPORT — supply chain partner handling medical goods logistics from the US to Uganda.
Kabale Regional Hospital — training partner for CPD and clinical preceptorship.