A team of 21 spent five days in Fiji providing better sanitation and healthcare for local communities.
Tag: 10000 Toes
Kama Adventist Church trained 73 new 10,000 Toes ambassadors with plans to make the campaign its key health evangelism initiative.
Sponsored by the 10,000 Toes campaign, the program aimed to equip health leaders from around the TPUM with the skills necessary to become effective lifestyle coaches and addiction recovery specialists.
The new centre is aimed at empowering people to take an active interest in improving their health outcomes.
More than 130 people graduated as 10,000 Toes ambassadors after attending a three-day summit held at Pacific Adventist University.
Throughout the presentations, attendees learned about the alarming statistics of non-communicable diseases (NCDs) in the South Pacific, how lifestyle medicine can change one's life and how someone's spirituality can impact their mental wellbeing.
"The best health intervention is lifestyle," said SPD president Pastor Glen Townend while opening the Hope Clinic in Suva (Fiji) last Friday, May 6, on his first trip outside Australia in the last two years.
It was a joyous occasion for church members on Yanuca Island in Fiji, during the official opening of their new church building on Thursday, March 31.
The Save 10,000 Toes campaign is aiming to reduce Type 2 diabetes cases and other lifestyle diseases in the country by 2030.
Out in rural Nadi are isolated pockets of family homes, some of whom live day-to-day not knowing where their next meal will come from.
Recent Headlines
Latest Issue
