Señora Maria’s daily struggle to sew and weave crafts for her family is a constant threat to their livelihood. Señor Alfredo can no longer see to repair his hut and mend fishing nets. These are but a few common stories we regularly hear from the aging population in our villages. As the intensity of the...
Come join us to help provide health care and education in the jungle villages, and share your time, talents, and expertise. All medical and dental volunteers, and those who just want to lend a hand are welcome. Spanish is preferable, but not necessary. March 15 - 18, 2025 – Cataract Evaluation trip – Dr. Andrew McLaughlin April 5 –...
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...
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...
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...
UPDATE March 2021: Needs continue for oxygen and oxygen tanks as hospital beds are full, and many COVID patients must be treated at home. Please indicate “oxygen” if you wish to donate to this effort on PayPal. UPDATE July 2020: Deliveries of medical supplies and PPE have now been made to 6 large Clinics and their 25 health...