Healthcare overview
We give healthcare - mostly on a humanitarian basis - to detainees, ex-detainees and their dependents.
Offender healthcare
We have a strong track record in caring for detainees, commercially in high-income countries and on a humanitarian basis where the state doesn’t provide. And we’re now into our second decade of continual provision within Philippine places of detention.
Holistic care
Whenever it is safe to do so, we ask our patients about their mental state and spiritual beliefs. Like all humans, our patients are mind, body and soul. And so we practise holistic healthcare.
Conditions
Certain conditions (such as malnutrition and tuberculosis) are massive problems behind bars. Improvisation (eg turning bottles into spacers) is a must. And some issues (eg conditions of detention) are new territory for most of our volunteers.
‘I needed clothes and you clothed me, I was sick and you looked after me, I was in prison and you came to visit me.’
Matthew 25:36
