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Global Impact of 2022

At MAP International, we believe that everyone deserves access to quality healthcare, no matter where they live. That’s why we’re committed to providing life-changing patient treatments to people in need around the world.

Our efforts have enabled us to provide critical medicines and health supplies to millions of people in 86 countries around the world. We’re also pleased to report that we increased our medicine delivery by $119 million from the previous year, totaling $745,372,921. Additionally, we provided $37,549,164 in disaster relief – a $24 million increase from 2021. Our mission is simple yet impactful: to provide essential medicines and health supplies to those in need so they can live life to the fullest.

In the fiscal year 2022 alone, we delivered over 16 million prenatal vitamins to 49 countries to support maternal and fetal health. We also provided over 119,000 oral rehydration salts, totaling nearly 3 million sachets, to 45 countries to help prevent dehydration. Additionally, we administered over 1.8 million deworming medications to patients in 15 countries and provided over 800,000 antibiotics to individuals in 57 countries. Through our Bringing Children Health (BCH) Program, we were able to reach over 324,000 children – an increase of over 243,000 from the previous year. By targeting our efforts where they’re needed most, we can make a real impact and improve the health and wellbeing of children around the world.

Thanks to our dedicated team and generous supporters, we’re able to make a real difference in the lives of those who need it most. Join us in our mission to create a healthier, more equitable world today.

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Our Mission

Medicine For All People

MAP International is a Christ-centered global health organization guided by a vision of a world where all people have access to the medicines and care they need. MAP works through strategic partnerships to deliver hope, and healing to vulnerable communities around the world.

Mission

To provide medicine and health supplies to people in need around the world so they might experience life to the fullest.

Vision

We envision a world where everyone, regardless of where they live, has access to basic life-saving and life-transforming medicine.

Our Story. Our Calling.
A Legacy of Health

Mission hospitals and clinics all over the world lacked the resources they needed to treat their patients. While missionary doctors did their best with what they had, the medicine and health supplies they knew were available in the U.S. were nearly impossible to find in remote parts of the world.

An administrator at the Christian Medical Society, Ray Knighton, heard about this deep need on the mission field, and began talking about it to anyone who would listen. One fateful day in 1954, Art Larson of the Schering Drug Co. called Ray and told him he had shipped 11 tons of medicine to Ray’s office in Chicago. In shock, Ray gasped and said, “You did what?”

Despite having no warehouse and only a small office, Knighton and his secretary distributed every single box of medicine to doctors serving abroad within just three months.

This act of generosity and kindness marked the beginning of MAP’s humble roots.

El Salvador, 1986

Guatemala, 2026

MAP Timeline

1954
A truckload of medicine is dropped off at the Christian Medical Society’s office in Chicago. Ray Knighton and his assistant orchestrate the delivery of 11 tons of medicine to mission doctors traveling from the United States to serve people in countries around the world.
1965
The Christian Medical Society board votes to spin off its “Medical Assistance Programs” and MAP is founded as a separate 501c3 organization focused on delivering medicines and health supplies to people in need.
1971
DeWitt Wallace, the founder of The Reader’s Digest, donates $1 million to fund the Reader’s Digest International Fellowship, a program to support medical students serving in high needs areas overseas.
1976
MAP partners with the Billy Graham Association to provide disaster relief for hundreds of thousands of people injured when a devastating earthquake strikes Guatemala.
1985
To improve its operational efficiency and access to ocean ports, MAP relocates its Global Medicines Distribution Center from Wheaton, IL to Brunswick, GA.
1993
MAP International launches its Medical Mission Pack program to serve short-term medical mission teams. Since its launch, more than 45,000 Medical Mission Packs have been sent with medical mission teams to help people globally.
2005
More than 225,000 people perish when a tsunami strikes Indonesia. MAP provides more than $10 million in medicines and health supplies to help those injured in the devastation in Banda Ache, the Andaman Islands and Sri Lanka.
2010
MAP provides more than $20 million in disaster aid following a devastating earthquake that leveled Port Au Prince, Haiti.
2014
An outbreak of Ebola virus in Liberia captures global attention. MAP responds by sending 33,000 personal protective health suits and more than $18 million in medicines and health supplies.
2020
COVID-19 pandemic hits and MAP responds to urgent requests for emergency aid. MAP warehouse continues operations throughout the pandemic.
2023
New global distribution center opens in Brunswick, GA, doubling MAP’s capacity to store and ship medicine.
2025
MAP reaches historic milestone, receiving and distributing a staggering $1.3 billion in donated medicine and health supplies.

MAP's 83,000 sq. foot Distribution Center, Brunswick, Georgia

"I was sick and you took care of me."
Matthew 25:36

At the center of our

mission is you!

The medicine crisis is massive. But together, we can solve it. Your generosity will transform countless lives.