Yonsei University Health System (YUHS) medical volunteer team for Mongolia and Gangnam Severance Hospital medical volunteer team for Kenya returned after carrying out the Severance spirit of sharing. The medical volunteer team for Mongolia held medical programs in the country for 20 years, this time in Ulaanbaatar and Darkhan. The team was led by Professor Hong Cheon-soo of Medicine consisting of 17 medical members as well as religious, educational, medical assistants and administrative staff. The 44-member team was joined by 27 local volunteers including Dean of Yonsei Friendship Hospital Choi Won-gyu, Professor Emeritus Lee Choong-guk, students at Health Sciences of University of Mongolia, and medical staff at Yonsei Friendship Hospital. The team was divided into various groups according to their majors: internal medicine, allergies, gynecology, surgery, pediatrics, radiology, dentistry, dermatology and pharmacy. On the first day, the team was stationed at 3 locations: at a church and a welfare center in Mongolia’s capital, Ulaanbaatar, and at Yonsei Friendship Hospital. The following day, the team traveled 188 kilometers north to Darkhan to treat patients in villages there offering general practice, dental treatment and mobile clinics with support from the Medical College in Darkhan. The Mongolian volunteer team visited Lee Tae-joon Memorial Park, the National Medical University of Mongolia and Yonsei Friendship Hospital as well. The medical team attended to 1,722 patients – 28 surgeries, 106 dental procedures and 1,588 outpatient treatments – through this mission. Professor Hong said that, “We are always filled with gratitude that the locals here continue to welcome our medical missionary activities. Although it is tough, all of us who participate in the program get this really great feeling from the bottom of our hearts. We think that this feeling is similar to that which medical missionaries and Dr. Severance had 127 years ago when they came to Korea. It is giving back and sharing the grace of God through loving our neighbors as Jesus did.” Gangnam Severance Hospital had also on a previous occasion offered medical volunteer service to the nomadic Rendille tribe in Marsabit Town in Kenya, Africa. From June 21st to 30th, the hospital’s volunteer team to Kenya consisting of 19 doctors, nurses and pharmacists treated some 1,000 locals. This year marked the fourth time the hospital provided medical care for Kenyans in Marsabit where the desert land is unsuited for cultivation of grain and the residents depend on relief goods to sustain their life. The team treated patients at local churches and schools and at Mokdong School, built by Gangnam Severance Hospital in 2010.