Salvation Medi-Rescue Mission for Africa (SMMA) is a non- profit, non-governmental, non-political and non-denominational organization, dedicated to meeting the medical, spiritual and other essential needs of the poorest communities in Africa.
SMMA was formally incorporated in the United States of America in 2018 as a non-governmental organization (NGO), but had been existing informally since 1995 (26 years)
Registered formally in Cameroon in 2019 and since then SMMA has been
Criss-Crossing the whole country carrying out sensitization; screening and treatment of common communicable noncommunicable killer diseases like cancer of the cervix, Breast cancer, prostate cancer, Diabetes, Hepatitis and Hypertension etc.
SMMA under the leadership of Dr. Simon N. PECHULANO has screened tens of thousands and spoken to millions of people on a one on one regarding pertinent health issues both in Nigeria and Cameroon:
- OUR VISION
To establish our presence in the poorest communities in Africa with the aim to reduce, to the barest minimum, the impact of silent killer diseases.
- OUR MISSION
To meet the medical, spiritual and other essential needs of the poorest communities in Africa.
- -HISTORY OF SMMA ( summary)
Salvation Medi-Rescue Mission for Africa ( SMMA) was founded in 1995 by Dr. Simon N. PECHULANO while still a medical student in the great Obafemi AWOLOWO UNIVERSITY ILE-IFE Nigeria . After completing his course in Obstetrics and Gynecology, Simon painfully learned that it was not normal to die in labor and delivery as it happened to his dear mother. Simon like so many others have been a victim of this general
medical neglect in Cameroon in particular and Africa in general. Simon’s Mon passed away during childbirth when he was just 13. Armed with his medical knowledge, a quiet reflection of all the events leading to his mother’s dead, made him concluded beyond doubt that it was an avoidable and very unfortunate dead. For example he labored for more than two days. Which is absolutely unacceptable in medical practice. The situation has not changed much. Reason why he has wondered silently how many children are being orphaned, and how many families are being traumatized by such avoidable death.
These has been his motivation to put together , encourage and build a great team, dedicated to saving the lives of other potential victims from avoidable and untimely dead.
OUR VALUES;
Life is sacred. Every human deserve love, care and dignity. Therefore, we regard everybody irrespective of race, language, religion, political inclinations, social class as created by God and deserve to be loved and served with dignity.
We as well believe in accountability, honesty, collective action, solidarity and unity of purpose.