DB Peru News

In response to the concerns about young and middle-aged women dying from symptoms of cervical cancer, we began our Women’s Project in 2011.  Since that time, our program has progressed through the years with education, vaccinations, examinations, and testing with different clinical treatments.  View our Cervical Cancer and HPV project > In 2022, we joined in...

This exciting project is underway to build medicine huts in jungle villages in order to have supplies of medicines where there are no pharmacies. The sponsor of this project is Altro, a company in England that will test their cladding products in the jungle environment by the construction of medicine and storage huts in select...

In 2022, we began community education to increase awareness of this world-wide problem.  There are many reasons for concern:  the communities in the jungle are in isolation and there is a lack of awareness; there is poor communication between people when they leave the villages; there are not many resources or money to find or...

In our medical clinics in 2022, we were able to offer the women and girls non-disposal menstrual kits as a gift.  These kits were the courtesy of Karen Johnson, For Our Sisters Project, and Days for Girls.  The kits were handmade and hand-packaged by different groups around the world.  Some of the women in the...

One of our hallmark programs is follow-up of patients of concern in the river villages.  Many of our volunteers have been involved with these visits.  At any given time, there are patients in the river villages who have serious chronic illnesses, or acute illness that needs to be followed to assure that they are improving. Update...

The 2019 DB Peru Blue Butterfly Gala was, yet again, the most beautiful night of the year! We started in the jungle, and this year we returned to the jungle on the wings of the beautiful Blue Morpho butterfly. We would like to thank German Ambassador Herzberg and his wife Sofia for hosting this spectacular evening of...