Thirty-Five Years. Across Asia.
One Promise.
A narrative account of what we did, who we reached, and what comes next — calendar year January through December 2025.
The Work Continues
Dear Friends,
When I look back on this year, I am reminded of a truth I have held close for thirty-five years: the work we do is only possible because of the people who believe in it. Every donor, every partner, every staff member who returns day after day to a village where the need has not changed — they make this work real.
This past year, Mission to the Nations reached more than 100,000 people across Asia. Our health clinics continued to provide affordable healthcare to more than 54,000 patients. Mobile medical teams visited villages where no doctor had come before. More than 8,000 children continued their education with meals, shelter, and care. Women graduated from our vocational training programmes with the skills and tools to build their own livelihoods.
I want to speak about what these numbers mean. Behind every figure is a mother who did not have to choose between feeding her children and seeking medical care. A girl who stayed in school because her school finally had a safe toilet. A farmer whose village finally had clean water. A widow who learned to sew and now supports her family with dignity.
This year also marked the completion of our most rigorously documented project to date — the girls' sanitation initiative in East Godavari, funded by the Luxembourg Foreign Ministry and delivered in partnership with AIAE Luxembourg. We reached 4,457 girls across fifteen schools. Every toilet block was GPS-tagged. Every outcome was independently verified against agreed targets. I tell you this because this is how charity must operate in the modern world: with clear targets, accountable delivery, and verifiable results. It is the standard we hold ourselves to.
Looking ahead, we face the same realities we have always faced. Poverty is not a project with a timeline. Children still lack access to basic healthcare. Rural communities still drink from contaminated sources. Women are still denied the literacy and skills that would allow them to build their own futures. Wherever these conditions exist across Asia, there is work to do.
But I am hopeful. I am hopeful because in thirty-five years I have seen what is possible when a community of donors, partners, and field staff decide together that the status quo is unacceptable. Every well drilled, every child schooled, every woman trained — each is a small but permanent change in the direction of justice.
On behalf of the thousands of people whose lives you have touched this year — thank you. Thank you to our donors in the United States who gave generously. Thank you to our institutional partners — Children's Hope International, A Child's Hope International, New Life Evangelistic Center, AIAE Luxembourg, and others — who stood alongside us. Thank you to the MTN team, many of whom have served for decades.
The work continues.
The Year in Numbers
These numbers are not estimates. They are drawn from hospital registers, school enrolment records, training rosters, and field reports — the ordinary documentation of daily work, gathered across the communities we serve in Asia.
Six Programmes, One Community
MTN delivers the same six core programmes wherever we work — adapted to each community, but built on a single conviction: that healthcare, education, dignity, and clean water belong to every person, not only those who can afford them.
Healthcare
Our health clinics completed another full year of operations — offering outpatient care, surgery, maternal services, and ICU care. Mobile medical teams visited hundreds of villages across Asia, delivering care to communities with no other access to a doctor.
Child Welfare & Education
Our residential and day-care programmes continued across Asia, providing free schooling, meals, healthcare, and shelter for children who had been denied these basics. This year, the oldest group of children who came into our care as young boys and girls began their first full years of tertiary education and skilled employment — a generational shift.
Women's Empowerment
Women graduated from our vocational training programmes equipped with sewing machines, literacy, healthcare knowledge, and the start of a livelihood. Many are now the primary income-earners in their households. In 2025 we opened new cohorts in communities across Asia where women had not previously had access to these programmes.
Rural Development
Additional clean-water wells were installed in villages across the communities we serve. Daily feeding stations continued operating without interruption, providing nutrition to street children and lactating mothers. Each well provides permanent safe drinking water for a full village — an intervention that does not stop giving.
Girl's Education & Sanitation
The Luxembourg Foreign Ministry-funded school sanitation project — a two-year programme delivered in partnership with AIAE Luxembourg — reached completion. Every one of the 15 target schools received a functional toilet block, hygiene training, menstrual health education, and a school hygiene team. Installations were GPS-tagged and independently verified.
Community Health Outreach
Community health outreach — the work of sending doctors, nurses, and medicines directly into remote villages — continued as our most extensive programme. Leprosy patients received year-round food and medicine. Maternal health and vaccination services reached communities without other access.
The Luxembourg Sanitation Project
This was not our biggest project — it was our most clearly structured. Funded by the Luxembourg Foreign Ministry and delivered in partnership with AIAE Luxembourg, the two-year programme installed toilet blocks, delivered menstrual health education, and established hygiene teams at 15 government schools — reaching 4,457 girls in total. It stands as our model for how modern humanitarian work should be delivered: with clear targets, verifiable results, and full accountability to the funder.
Every installation was GPS-tagged, every school was cross-referenced against a national database, and every activity was independently verified. The model is now being replicated across communities in Asia with the same unmet need.
Read the Full Case Study →Over 90% of Every Dollar Goes to Programmes
We keep operations lean and fundraising overhead minimal so that your generosity reaches the communities we serve. The breakdown below is consistent with the long-term pattern of our giving.
None of This Happens Alone
MTN's work this year was made possible by institutional partners who brought funding, shared networks, and years of experience — and by thousands of individual donors across the United States and around the world.
“I have never seen so much done with so little. I highly commend this wonderfully pure work done so very wisely, intelligently and perseveringly.”
2026 & Beyond
Expand school sanitation to new communities
The Luxembourg project in East Godavari District demonstrated the model. In 2026 we begin replication in new school communities across Asia wherever girls face the same unmet need — with institutional funders we are currently in conversation with.
Deepen women's empowerment cohorts
Our 2025 pilot cohorts delivered promising results. We plan to scale to multi-cohort programmes with sewing-machine microenterprise support, adapted to the livelihoods of each community we serve.
Continue community health outreach at full capacity
Mobile medical camps remain the most cost-effective way we reach the most isolated communities. We aim to sustain our current pace of hundreds of camps per year across Asia — this depends on continued individual donor support.
Maintain hospital operations and plan equipment upgrades
Our health clinics will continue their 54,000+ patients-per-year pace. Planned capital projects include ICU equipment refreshes and expansion of maternal services, subject to institutional donor support.
The Work Continues Because of You.
If you have read this far, you already understand what this work is — and what it asks of all of us. There are many ways to be part of it.