Madaoua, Niger
Clinique Médicale Maigari
Like an unfashioned lump of clay on a potter’s wheel, Assoumane Mahamadou is simply a vessel willing to be molded.
Today, the Lord is using Assoumane and his clinic to reach thousands with the Gospel in Niger, a country that is 98-percent Muslim.
Clinique Médicale Maigari has grown from one man with a vision and dream to a ministry that now has eight employees. The clinic offers outpatient consultations, lab testing, maternity services and a pharmacy. It’s the only clinic in Madaoua equipped with an ultrasound machine.
Each week day a prayer team meets to lift up the needs of the ministry and pray for patients.
“We pray that our ministry will be a center of reference through prayer and health care to the population for the glory of the Lord,” Assoumane said. “We pray for the physical and spiritual healing of the sick.”
The Jesus Film also plays on loop in the waiting room so patients can be introduced to a new and full life in Jesus.
Assoumane Mahamadou
About the ministry:
Name: Clinique Médicale Maigari
Location: Madaoua, Niger
Director: Assoumane Mahamadou
Partnership: 2010-present
Staff: 8
Our mission:
“To bring the Good News of Jesus to the people who are sick by television or to talk to them during the consultations. Our mission is to touch their lives by showing the Gospel.”
Why I love being a director:
“I love to be a director of the ministry because it’s a joy to organize the work of the clinic and preaching to the patients. I have a vision, an objective and a goal that I want to reach in order to meet the challenges. Apart from the work of the clinic, I want to bring people to Jesus Christ in my country.”
About Niger:
Population: 23.6 million
Size: 1.3 million sq. km, or about twice the size of Texas.
Capital: Niamey
Borders: Burkina Faso and Mali to the west; Algeria and Libya to the north; Chad to the east; Nigeria and Benin to the south.
Religious groups: Muslim, 99.3%; Christian, 0.3%
Primary language: French
Literacy (age 15+): 35.1%
Physician density: 0.04 doctors per 1,000 people.
Population below international poverty line: 40.8%
Life expectancy: 59.7 years
Infant mortality rate: 68.1 deaths per 1,000 live births.
Major exports: Uranium ore, livestock, cowpeas, onions.
Climate: Desert; mostly hot, dry and dusty; tropical in the extreme south.
Terrain: Mostly desert plains and sand dunes; flat to rolling plains in the south; hills in the north.
