Youth With A Mission (YWAM) is a worldwide Christian movement operating in more than 1,000 locations in over 180 countries, with over 25,000 full time staff since 1960. YWAM is a Christian charity that offers global opportunities for volunteers from diverse backgrounds to care, connect, serve, and build with individuals and communities. YWAM is decentralised in structure and financially autonomous. This allows each centre to adapt and to serve the specific needs of the community.
YWAM Townsville has operated for over 25 years with an aim to build capacity in young people and to develop the community through three focus areas: Training, Medical Ships, and Youth Initiatives. YWAM Townsville has grown to over 100 full-time volunteer staff operating out of a campus that takes up an entire city block in the heart of Townsville’s CBD.
About YWAM Medical Ships
YWAM Medical Ships is actively developing communities by addressing health care and training needs in Papua New Guinea (PNG) in partnership with the relevant national and provincial government administrations.
The program is guided by the vision and priorities of key policy documents including PNG’s National Health Plan: 2011- 2020 (NHP: 2011-2020). It also honours the PNG – Australia Partnership for Development: Health and HIV/AIDS Schedule and a shared commitment to the Sustainable Development Goals (SDG).
YWAM Medical Ships implements its program, in association with key stakeholders and partners, via use of a Training and Medical Ship and land-based teams deployed in rural PNG communities.
Memoranda of Understanding (MOU) are in place with a number of sector leads including the National Department of Health (NDoH) and provinces engaged.
All of YWAM Medical Ships staff, including senior project managers, are full-time volunteers.
YWAM Medical Ships is a signatory to the ACFID Code of Conduct, and World Relief Australia Code of Conduct
