Our Mission
Our mission is to demonstrate the compassion of Jesus Christ through specific medical and surgical interventions for poor Cambodians, and to educate the next generation of young Cambodian physicians.
Kendrick Kahler, MD
GILEAD’S HOPE 2024 YEAR END Financial Report August 19, 2025
Greetings from the beautiful southern Cambodian city of Kampot. I tell people it’s not as hot as Texas in July/August with temperatures ranging from 78 F at night to 95 F in the daytime. The nearly daily afternoon monsoon rains do cool everything down and very few mosquitos exist because their larvae are washed away in the heavy rains.
I am busy teaching the 20 internal/family medicine residents in our 3 year post graduate program at Sonja Kill Memorial Hospital (www.SKMH.org). We also teach another 10 senior medical students from various medical schools located the capital city of Phnom Penh. We offer an excellent rural medical education with rotations in surgery, orthopedic surgery, pediatrics, OB-GYN, internal medicine, gastroenterology, and emergency medicine. With access to modern online medical information such as US websites UptoDate, and the American College of Physicians Resident Board Internal Medicine lectures, our Cambodian physicians continue to improve their critical thinking and thus patient outcomes. I’m learning new things myself by teaching.
