Agape carries a small laboratory, including pulse Oximeter, Hemoglobinometer, Urinalysis, Glucometer, EKG and Ultrasound. Most villages we visit have never seen a glucometer, or Hemoglobin machine, and we find many cases of Anemia and Diabetes, only because we can TEST for it.
Agape carries a range of medicine that will treat 95% of all the diseases we will see, and these medicines are cost effective and available to patients in Russia.
Russia is filled with Orphanages, and Agape is able to enter these schools and orphanages, to help children with vitamins, school supplies, and medical consultations for their problems. It is sad to know the future for most of these kids, ... statistics show that 80% of the girls will become prostitutes and most of the boys will go to prison after they are released from the orphanage. Yet, The orphanages are filled with children who WANT to know about Jesus.
Time has forgotten these people, they have no modern convinces, (such as dishwashers, washing machines, clothes dryers, bottled milk, etc.) They live a simple life and have only one worry... survival. They have lost all hope for their life to get any better.
If they have a medical problem... they use home remedies and local "superstitions" which seldom work. The major health problems for these isolated villages are Alcohol, and tobacco. The average Russian male dies at 58.
