The COVID emergency brought widespread cancellations for short-term fly-ins to run clinics. Are the missions — praised for the help they provide and criticized for a colonialist mindset — coming back?
Short-term medical missions had been growing in popularity for decades and really took off after the turn of the 21st century.
Lasker herself has heard of various scenarios. Some faith-based groups have told her that they have not resumed fly-in missions because of security concerns or because the countries they visit have been less willing to allow them to come in. Others have said they are going back and operating as before.
"There's now a greater sense of control and capacity in many of the countries that have hosted mission programs. They know that they can actually do a lot themselves and that they don't have to say yes to whatever somebody from the outside offers them," she says.I don't believe that the short-term visits are all terrible and should never go back," she says.
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