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My missionary medical volunteer trip to Senegal was a life-changing experience. At first, I struggled with the overwhelming heat and the unfamiliar surroundings. I was exhausted and felt out of place. Honestly, all I wanted to do in the first couple of days was go home. But as each day passed, the time we spent became more and more valuable. I was realizing that it wasn’t just about what we were giving- it was about what I was receiving too. Over the week I was there, our team of volunteers provided medical care, distributed essential supplies, and engaged with the local [...]

A little girl stumbled towards me in grass-woven sandals crunching the loose gravel beneath her.  Smiling, she raised a wooden stool, motioning me to sit upon it. Her juvenile rheumatoid arthritis  did not impede her from offering a kind gesture to a familiar face. Although I had been in the  Fatiga Leprosy Village just days at this point, I felt honored to sit alongside the physicians and  villagers congregated in prayer under the central village tree. Together, we challenged the  notions of otherness or lack of belonging that terms like ‘leprosy’ conjure. Together, we found  how medicine is but a sacred [...]

Participating in medical relief activities in Africa is certainly a profound experience. There, we faced various challenges such as a lack of medical resources, high incidence of diseases, and harsh environmental conditions. At the same time, we also felt the significant help our medical knowledge and skills have provided to the local people, as well as the positive impact on their lives. During this event, I encountered patients with knee injuries causing hematoma, patients with heel abscesses, and villagers lining up demanding joint injections. I didn't expect the skill of joint injections to be so crucial, and I'm grateful that the [...]

ONE In 2022, our family happened to meet Dr. Jun Xu and learned about the Africa Cries Out medical mission in Senegal, West Africa. What began as a chance encounter, fueled by a beautiful hope, became something inevitable. In March 2023, after months of careful consideration, my wife and daughter bravely set out on their journey to Senegal. After the medical mission ended, my daughter wrote an article titled "My Journey to Senegal Changed My Life." Walking across that barren land and witnessing the people's impoverished lives left a profound impact on her heart, which resonated through every word she wrote. [...]

After several days of collaboration during free medical clinics, the surgical and anesthesia teams of the "Africa Cries Out" surgical group had developed seamless coordination.                       The surgical team arriving at the hospital for the day's surgeries.   On the fourth day, the first surgical patient was brought into the operating room. The patient was a 73-year-old woman who had long suffered from uterine prolapse. The plan was to perform a transvaginal hysterectomy and pelvic floor repair. Preoperatively, the patient reported no discomfort, and the procedure began routinely. The procedure began [...]

Just a few weeks ago, I returned from a once-in-a-lifetime experience as a volunteer with the Africa Cries Out group in Senegal. I first heard about the trip from my uncle, Dr. Haibin Wang, and my cousin, Alex, who had gone in 2023. He shared pictures of the villages he visited and told me about the patients who touched his heart. At the time, I was still deciding between dental and medical school, but I knew I had to go to Senegal as soon as I had the chance. After graduating from college, I took a gap year to work on [...]

After months of meticulous preparation and through the generous support of compassionate individuals worldwide, the first wave of "Africa Cries Out" medical mission team gathered at New York's JFK Airport this afternoon, departing at 7 PM enroute to Senegal with hearts ablaze. This extraordinary volunteer corps - comprising of physicians in their prime, high school students radiating youthful vitality, university professors, and construction workers wielding both compassion and tools - represents a beautiful tapestry of nationalities from the United States, Canada, Germany, and China. United by their sacred purpose, these modern-day Good Samaritans gathered beneath the airport's soaring arches, bound together [...]

In 2025, I met Dr. Wei Li again in Senegal. He was packing medicines with his daughter Victoria. I asked him, "How many times have your family come to Senegal?" He told me that he and his wife, Dr. Shao Yuan, had come with their daughter four times. I asked curiously, "Why do you have to come together every time? Isn't it okay to let your daughter come by yourself?" He replied, "There is an old saying in China, "If you don't correct yourself, how can you correct others?".  You have to do first what you want your child to do. [...]

At about 3:00 in the morning, we were awakened by the rough braying of donkeys in the village. In order to fall back to sleep, Sarah suggested that we pray together - the God who could make Balaam's donkey speak, couldn't He make the donkeys in the village shut up? Sure enough, after praying, we slept until 6:00 in the morning. When we walked into the dining hall in the morning where rays of the hot African sun was shining through, most of the volunteers were already enjoying breakfast.                         [...]

In a little over a month, I will be traveling to Senegal to participate in the “Africa Cries Out” medical mission. It has been two years since I last went to Africa. I got involved in the volunteer medical mission trip because of a very touching article I read a few years ago by Dr. Xu Jun about Dr. Faye who gave his life selflessly offering his medical services. Since then, I have volunteered and left my footprints in Haiti, Cambodia, and Senegal. At the end of 2022, as I was preparing for that first trip to Senegal, my oldest son, [...]