Making an Impact: Patience's Story
- EMMS International
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Patience Mbozi, a Clinical Nurse Practitioner and Palliative Care Specialist from, Lusaka Zambia shares a letter of thanks for your support that accompanied your Impact Report:
My name is Patience Mbozi. I am a Clinical Nurse Practitioner and Palliative Care Specialist from Lusaka, Zambia. It is with deep gratitude and hope that I write to you today, as someone whose life and work have been transformed by EMMS International – and by your generous support.
Thanks to an EMMS scholarship, I was able to pursue a Master’s degree in Palliative Care, and now, I am honoured to be undertaking a PhD at the University of Maryland. These opportunities have shaped not only my own career but have allowed me to give back to my country – to teach, to train healthcare workers, and to care for patients who are too often forgotten.
Every day around the world, individuals and families are facing unimaginable challenges: children with cancer whose parents walk for hours just to access basic medicines; mothers enduring life-limiting illnesses without pain relief; and elderly patients in remote villages where there are no doctors or nurses to ease their final days.
So many of the people that EMMS work with around the world live in places where access to essential healthcare is still a distant hope. Young girls are married far too young, not out of choice, but from necessity – because their families are struggling to survive. Too often, these girls are forced to trade education and childhood for survival. And too many communities still wait, every day, for the arrival of trained healthcare workers who never come.
Yet, amid this hardship, there is hope. This year’s EMMS impact report tells a powerful story of change – of lives saved, pain relieved, and futures rewritten. It celebrates the strength of the communities we serve and the incredible progress that has been made because people like you choose to care.
Your support has helped train nurses, equip clinics, and provide life-changing care to people living in the hardest-to-reach places. Because of you, more people are learning about the power and dignity of palliative care. Because of you, girls are accessing education. Because of you, families are beginning to believe in a future that looks different from their past.
But our work is far from finished. For every patient we reach, many more still suffer in silence. For every nurse trained, many more are needed. The progress we’ve made is real, but so is the need.
That’s why I want to thank you – not only for what you’ve already done, but for the hope you continue to offer. Your generosity has changed my life. And through me, and others like me, it is changing the lives of thousands more.
Please continue to stand with us. By donating what you can today we can ensure that no one is left behind, that no patient suffers without comfort, and that the future of healthcare in countries like Zambia is brighter, stronger and more just.
With heartfelt thanks,
Patience Mbozi
Clinical Nurse Practitioner and Palliative Care Specialist
Lusaka, Zambia