HOLY WORD INLAND MISSION (HWIM)

Holy Word Inland Mission (HWIM) is a non-profit organization founded in 2006. HWIM works in social development, focusing on palliative care, mental health, and family welfare.

Holy Word Inland Mission was founded by Mr. Santhosh P Thomas, who serves as the founder and Managing Trustee. The story behind starting this organization is rooted in a personal turning point in Mr. Santhosh P. Thomas's life. He lost 2 cousins in an accident at near Peechi, Thrissur district in 1992. After this, Mr. Santhosh P. Thomas decided to serve God by helping others. He started HWIM in the year 2006. Later (February 7-11, 2012), he was admitted to Medical College, Kozhikode due to another accident with abnormal medical results. Mr. Santhosh and his wife Somi prayed and dedicated their life to serving people facing similar illnesses if God saved him. God healed him. This experience led to a deeper understanding of terminally ill patients' struggles and inspired Mr. Santhosh P. Thomas and his wife to work with helpless palliative care patients from 2013 onwards.

Our mission is to extend service to the destitute, poor, aged, children, disabled, chronically ill patients, and their needy dependents. Many people with illness or disability need help and support to achieve a good quality of life and participate in social and economic life on an equal basis with others. We initiate and implement palliative care programs, awareness programs, and social services.

MISSION STATEMENT

Together we reach to serve, care and educate the unreached.

VISION 

To serve with Christ-like compassion, bringing hope, comfort, and healing to those in need (Mathew. 25: 40). 

MISSION

To implement palliative care projects & programs in India. 

COMMITTED TO

1. God’s word, the Bible as the foundation of our faith.

2. Transparency, accountability, integrity and excellence. 

3. To serve sacrificially.

ABOUT MISSION LOGO

The book symbolizes the Holy Bible. The dove symbolizes the Holy Spirit. The candle symbolizes the light of care, compassion and knowledge.

We are implementing a palliative care program, 'Supportive Unit'. The program aims to improves the quality of life of patients and their families who are facing problems associated with life-threatening illness. The program provides all the services and supports on the assessment and need based and enables the beneficiaries to have a meaningful experience during their difficult times.

Project Activities:

1. Monthly Aid: To provide a monthly support for medicine or hospital travel purpose for the beneficiaries.

2. Food Kit: To provide food kit for the needy beneficiaries.

3. Education Aid: To provide the monthly education aid for the needy children of the beneficiaries.

4. Livelihood Support: To provide resources/ livelihood tools for the dependents improve their economic well-being.

5. Wheelchair, walker etc distribution:  This program ensure these medical equipment for beneficiaries while they require it. 

6. Home Visit Services: To assess the living situation of the beneficiary families, provide support, connect them with necessary resources, minimize the stress and discomfort of the beneficiaries. 

7. Professional Volunteers & Zonal Activities:  To reach the beneficiaries regularly, the program has 3 zones (South zone, Central zone and North zone). Through the zones make available the services (Ask Doctor Program,  counselling, palliative care awareness etc) of professional volunteers at free of cost. 

8.  Palliative Family Get-Together : To bring together individuals facing serious illnesses/ disables, their caregivers, and healthcare professionals to provide support, education, counseling, bereavement care, spiritual care, respite care, therapies and comfort.  

We are conducting mental health  programs which take initiatives to reduce the mental illness and mental health conditions. Often, because of misconceptions about mental health and mental fitness, people often suffer in silence and their conditions go untreated. Mental health is important in everyday life which includes our emotional, psychological, and social well-being.  

Our Tele - Service is available on Monday and Thursday from 11 AM to 3 PM for prayer support and counseling at HWIM Office. Our counsellors are available in 24 hours to help to overcome the ill patients and families depression, confusion, stubbornness, fears and anxieties.  

Holy Word Inland Mission organizes Palliative Mission Fellowships at different places to train healthcare professionals, social workers, and volunteers in palliative care. This program equips participants to bring compassionate care to underserved and resource-limited communities. The fellowship focuses on holistic support—addressing physical, emotional, social, and spiritual needs—while also building practical skills to establish and sustain community-based palliative services. By empowering local caregivers and fostering global collaboration, HWIM works to ensure dignity, comfort, and hope for patients and families facing life-limiting illness.  

To set up a Centre for prayer, therapies and palliative  care retreat.

Our Mission Board Members / supporters have a vital function in involving themselves in the service programs and supporting the monthly activities of Holy Word Inland Mission. This helps to wipe away the tears of helpless people in palliative care. Financial constraints have always been a barrier to shaping our dream. However, due to the support of mission board members/ partners and well-wishers, we are marching towards our vision and mission.

The affairs of Holy Word Inland Mission are broadly managed by its trust board. All important decisions, evaluations, or any structural changes are taken by the Board of Trustees. Our organization continues its services, which have become a catalyst for positive change in society. 

The works and accounts of the Holy Word Inland Mission are monitored periodically by the Board of the Trustees. They would meet periodically and undertake evaluations of the works based on the following visible indicators.

1. Activities
2. Response of the targeted people
3. Positive change in social attitudes
4. Expected results      

 An annual general meeting held once a year and the purpose of the meeting is to give a report on the mission activities for the previous year. 

1)  HWIM Established Day &  International Nurses Day – 12th May 

2) World Environment Day - 5th June

3) National Doctors' Day (India) - 1st July 

4) World Hospice and Palliative Care Day Celebration - Second Saturday of October month.

5) International Volunteer Day - 5th December