Humanitarian Partners
Mission Connections and UDS: Connecting Resources With Needs
Mission Connections is a faith-based humanitarian nonprofit built around a simple idea captured in its own tagline: connecting resources with needs. Since 2015, its volunteer teams have worked alongside trusted local partners in Guatemala — hospitals, clinics, churches, schools and community leaders — providing primary medical care, medically necessary surgery, health education, clean-water systems and improved cookstoves. The organization is also developing healthcare-access initiatives in underserved parts of Northeast Texas.
What sets their approach apart is the order of operations. Rather than arriving with a predetermined solution, local partners help identify the priorities first. Projects are planned around what the community says it needs, and local staff continue the work after the volunteer teams fly home. That extends to donated supplies as well: the organization accepts only requested or preapproved items, so that what arrives matches a real need and can be transported, stored and used properly.
Their work so far
150+
improved cookstoves and water-filtration systems placed
200+
medically necessary surgical procedures
9
medical, surgical and church-based volunteer teams deployed
Universal Diagnostic Solutions provided a portable ultrasound system for the work in Guatemala. We were glad to play a small part, and we are grateful to the Mission Connections team for the opportunity.
Universal Diagnostic Solutions — Vista, California
Support their work
Mission Connections partners with churches, universities, hospitals, training programs, corporations, foundations and individual donors, and welcomes volunteers with a range of skills — not only clinicians. Learn more at missionconnections.org.
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Mission Connections is an independent nonprofit organization; its name and program information are used here with reference to its publicly published materials.