Zimbabwe

Zimbabwe LEEP Project

Working Together To Save Lives: Zimbabwe LEEP Project Launches Sunday

This Sunday, October 3, MATTER will be hosting a benefit concert to launch the LEEP project for the Victoria Falls Hospital in Zimbabwe. LEEP is the acronym for a medical procedure called Loop Electrosurgical Excision Procedure. Though the name is a bit of a tongue-twister and sounds rather complicated, the LEEP procedure is actually quite …

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Cervical Cancer In Zimbabwe

Cervical Cancer In Zimbabwe: Providing Health & Hope Through LEEP

Cervical cancer is the fourth most diagnosed cancer for women worldwide. It’s also one of the most treatable types of cancer when found early. Because it’s typically a slow-growing cancer, cervical cancer screening tests to detect precancerous lesions combined with early treatment has seen the rate of cervical cancer drop significantly over the last couple …

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Quenton Marty

Quenton Marty: Reflections From My Time In Zimbabwe

This week’s blog is written by MATTER’s President, Quenton Marty. Quenton and his family recently returned to Minnesota after spending seven months in Zimbabwe working alongside MATTER’s partner, Love for Africa, and overseeing our collaborative projects that are improving communities in this amazing country. This week I had lunch with a longtime friend and MATTER …

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Medical Equipment & Supplies Deliver Hope To Zimbabwe

Medical Equipment & Supplies Deliver Hope To Zimbabwe

On a beautiful summer day in 2018, a container load of medical equipment and supplies from MATTER was being unloaded at Victoria Falls Hospital in Zimbabwe. Winnie, one of the hospital’s nurses, stood watching from a distance hardly believing what she was seeing. “I feel like we go to war every day. We get people in accidents that need x-rays, pregnant …

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Bringing Hope To Zimbabwe

Bringing Hope To Zimbabwe: Medical Container Ships

“Hope is being able to see that there is light despite all the darkness.” Desmond Tutu  It’s MATTER’s privilege to partner with individuals and organizations to bring the bright light of hope to families and communities throughout our world. During these dark days of fear and uncertainty, sickness and death, that light is needed now more than ever.   In the capital …

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