RECOVERY PROGRAMME AS PART OF HEALTH MISSION WITH SPECIAL REFERENCE TO THE NEW HOPE CENTRE

The word mission means “a specific task or duty assigned to a person or group of people”. It
can also refer to a person's vocation (often in the phrase’ mission in life’). Another meaning for it is “a
group of persons representing or working for a particular country, business, etc, in a foreign country”
or “a special embassy sent to a foreign country for a specific purpose”. Yet another definition for it is
“a group of people sent by a religious body, especially a Christian church, to a foreign country to do
religious and social work.”1