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About Lott Carey Baptist Foreign Mission Convention

The Lott Carey Foreign Mission Convention seeks to be a premier mission agency of the African Diaspora. By networking human, technical, organizational, and fiscal resources, Lott Carey works toward transforming lives that can transform the world. Collaborating with faith communities, cultural groups, government agencies, and non-governmental organizations, Lott Carey works to improve the quality of life among marginalized peoples around the world. Lott Carey seeks to help build a better world through the following ways:

1. Building capacity for ministry, education, and health programs and services around the world;
2. Providing HIV/AIDS prevention education, care, and support;
3. Helping to develop a new generation of leaders for the world;
4. Enabling pastors to broaden their visions and build networks for more effective leadership local and global leadership;
5. Enlarging people·s understanding of what it means to be on God·s mission to the world with Christ and in the power of the Spirit;
6. Supporting programs and services for homeless families and children;
7. Mobilizing women to pray for and work for African women and girls forced into commercial sex work.

International Voluntary Service Activities

Recent international voluntary activities include:

1. technical assistance (physicians, nurses, social workers) for HIV/AIDS related treatment and prevention education;
2. medical teams (physicians) to perform general health, dental, and vision care;
3. community and leadership development teams to collaborate with church leadership efforts.

Approximately 75 volunteers participated in international volunteer activities during the past twelve months. Lott Carey anticipates a similar number to be deployed during the coming twelve months through like activities. There are currently a pool of volunteers accessible to the organization in excess of 250.

Volunteer for Prosperity Opportunities
Number of Opportunities	6
Geographic Regions	Africa, Caribbean
Health & Prosperity Sectors	Health, Capacity Building, HIV/AIDS,Women Youth Empowerment
Types of Opportunities	Technical, Support
Average Duration of Projects	8 days
Volunteer Profile Summary
Representative volunteers normally are medical, educational, or faith community leadership professionals. The majority have graduate degrees with a minority having undergradutate degrees. Medical volunteers are normally physicians. Educational volunteers are normally teachers who can share in "best practice" professional development activities as well as assist in empowerment projects for women and youth. Faith community leaders normally have the capacity to participate in strategic thinking and planning as well as partner with faith community leaders "on the ground" as these leaders execute a variety of faith community leadership activities.