UPDATE June 8: We have delivered a large amount of PPE personal protective equipment to both Hospital Regional and Hospital Apoyo. Our personal medication inventory has been taken to 2 small health posts that serve approx 5000 people. We have purchased medicines (at low government prices) in Iquitos and delivered them to the clinic in...
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...
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...
The Gender-Based Violence project began in November 2017 in meetings with 80 leaders from 18 communities in the lower Napo River. With a grant from the World Bank, DB Peru and the University College of London have embarked on supporting local health workers with training and materials for them to work with their communities to...
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. Meet...
More than 1,000 patients received extractions, fillings and cleanings with fluoride during our week in the jungle and the week in the Chulucanas villages. Each year DB Peru teams up with this professional NGO from Canada to set up temporary dental clinics in the villages. ...
In the midst of fun and games, volunteers at the health fair fitted hundreds of reading glasses, provided screening for blood pressure and blood sugar, as well as taught back safety and dental care. One of our more popular stations was for breast exams, performed by our nurses and doctors. More than hundred women had the...
Having a film crew with us has led to some amazing observations about our organization, as well as documenting our work and programs. Global Scream Productions from Nashville led by Anne Fentress, filmmaker, and Josephine Vandevender are here with cameraman Eduardo Delgado and sound man Daniel Saavedra from Lima, interviewing Renzo Peña, Vice President of...
DB Peru has published a health education booklet, Enfermidades y Tratamientos más comunes in el Bajo Napo, specifically for the people in the lower Napo River villages. Data was collected from the health clinics conducted by DB Peru, showing the most common health problems. The new booklet outlines those problems, and includes education about how to care...
Diana Bowie was the guest speaker at the International Conference of Dining for Women, Knowledge is Power, in Washington DC May 4-5, 2018. The topic was The Delivery of Services at the Last Mile; Challenges and Opportunities. DB Peru received a $42,000 grant from Dining for Women in 2015 for their work on cervical cancer, The Amazon...