"...He had compassion on them and healed their sick."
– Matthew 14:14

Think back to the last time you visited the emergency room. Perhaps you cut your foot on a nail and needed stitches; or maybe your child was burning with a 104-degree fever. As harrowing and fearful as that experience might have seemed, imagine if there had been no emergency room. What if the nearest health clinic were fifty miles away and you didn't have transportation? What if the doctors were forced to perform their operations under a tarp or in a bombed out building?

In some of the world's poorest countries, this nightmare is a reality. SFL believes that part of restoring a life is helping the person to be physically healed. But to be sustainable, assistance must go beyond emergency health interventions. SFL saves lives by building clinics for communities that don't have basic health facilities. Constructing medical facilities helps to stabilize a community and is critical in establishing accessible and permanent health services to the poor and suffering. To ensure sustainability, SFL builds clinics where governments or partnering medical organizations can provide training programs, medical equipment, and committed staff to operate the new facility. These new clinics serve as a symbol of hope in the community and residents can rest easier knowing that permanent health facilities are within reach.