You can improve health care for a poor native tribe in the jungle of North Central Peru. They have to travel, by expensive taxi, just to go see a doctor, so they often can't get the care they need. This project brings healthcare to them. It will improve their health so that they can stay working and provide for their families. Providing a clinic for the tribe will give new mothers a clean and safe place to give birth. You can improve the health for this entire tribe and impact their lives.
This community and surrounding communities do not have access to even basic healthcare. They are often sick from contaminated water, and even minor injuries can turn serious without basic care and antibiotics. It is equivalent in time and cost if you had to fly from Ohio to New York to see your doctor. So they often go without any healthcare until it becomes very serious and they have no choice. It is very expensive, and they are often off of work and away from home for days or weeks.
You can bring healthcare right to them. Providing treatment for parasites improves long term health and nutritional status, and growth and development in children. Identifying and treating health problems improves both their current condition, and lengthens their lives. Addressing illness and injury more quickly saves time, money, and lives. It allows them to return to work to support their families. A clinic will give a clean and safe place for women to give birth, instead of dirt floors.
In the long term the village can finally have water that is safe and free of parasites. Complications and death from births on dirt floors will decrease. Death and disability from untreated chronic health problems will decrease, and productivity will increase with improved health. Education and improved self care will lead to a decrease in need for ongoing healthcare resources. The tribe will have an improved future as the children develop properly and grow into healthy adults.
