Being a Medical Doctor from Argentina, Bibiana MacLeod was sent to Haiti by her local church to work in Missions. This is her story:
“Though I initially wanted to fulfill a call to serve the whole person with Jesus’ message, I found myself in situations of desperate need of health care and was overwhelmed with cases of disease that could have been prevented in the community like Malaria, Dehydration, HIV/AIDS, Maternal and infant mortality, Tetanos, Preventable Infectious Diseases, Malnutrition, Intestinal Worms.
One particular night, a nine month old baby was brought to me severely dehydrated as a result of having diarrhea. After a night long treatment of IV solutions the baby’s life was spared. However, a few months later while driving through the village, I saw the same little baby greeting me from the distance. She was naked, bare foot and with an extended belly, probably the consequence of contracting intestinal worms.
Right then, something in my heart was changed. I could no longer be fulfilled providing curative care to a people that didn’t feel responsible for their own wellness and who believed they couldn’t choose to have a healthier life. My journey of searching for the right way to help the poor see themselves as God sees them brought me to a ‘philosophy of care’ that has become my passion.“
‘Our vision is to see the poor taking full ownership of their situation, recovering their dignity and fulfilling God’s intention for their lives and their community.

Today Bibiana and her husband Alexander are serving a number of countries through Medical Ambassadors Canada. (MACA) Their goal is to practice a wellness strategy that integrates physical and spiritual concepts into community development through the countries were there are undeserved and marginalized people. This approach to wellness began in the early ‘80s in Africa and today is referred to as Community Health Evangelism (CHE).
CHE CORE VALUES:
o The recovery of dignity of the poor
o Our involvement as partners, not doers or providers
o Development of relationships, not projects
A strategy that integrates the Spiritual and Physical teachings