Abundant Health

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Abundant Health for All, a global health initiative of The United Methodist Church launched in 2017, aimed to protect vulnerable communities worldwide from preventable diseases. Authorized by the General Conference in 2016, the initiative focused on addressing the holistic health needs of all communities. Through fundraising and outreach, it met and exceeded the goals of extending lifesaving health interventions to one million children by 2020. Even after this goal was met, the work continued, and ultimately, more than five million women and children were reached with intentional care and viable resources throughout the life of the initiative.

Although Abundant Health for All formally ended in 2024, its work continues through U.S.-based Abundant Health coordinators commissioned across conferences and Global Health work remains at the heart of Global Ministries. For more information visit: Global Health 

Abundant Health focuses on five core areas impacting the health of children throughout the world: ensure safe births, address nutritional challenges, promote breastfeeding, advance prevention and treatment of childhood diseases and promote children’s health and wholeness. Photo courtesy of Global Ministries.

Since launching the Abundant Health Initiative in 2017, United Methodist Global Ministries has invested over $26 million across 50 countries and mobilized millions more in partner in-kind contributions. These efforts have brought health interventions to over 1 million children and adolescents in thousands of communities throughout Asia, Africa, North America, and Central America.

Nurse Vilma Zacarias cares for a newborn baby at the United Methodist Chicuque Rural Hospital near Maxixe, Mozambique. Photo courtesy of Mike DuBose, UM News.

In 2016, the General Conference voted to expand its global health reach from addressing a single disease, as devastating as it still is, to promoting Abundant Health for All. It set a goal to provide life-saving interventions to 1 million children over the following four years.

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