In February 2009 Amazon Promise travelled to the Upper Maranon River region of Loreto, Peru to hold clinic in the jungle and distribute insecticide treated bed nets. We started in Piura, near the coast and travelled over the Andes by bus to an oil base. Following that we helicoptered into the jungle at two different locations, travelling downstream by boat and canoe between villages before returning to the base.

This pre-clinic hut we're building is located right on the edge of the land we will eventually be building the larger Promesa de Belen Policlinico. We will be using this pre-clinic hut to hold clinics in when we have medical teams here in Peru, and also have a doctor there 2 Saturdays a month to provide ongoing care. Prior to the construction of this building, some of you know very well the precarious and sometimes dangerous situation we constantly found ourselves in with trying to find an adequate and safe place to hold clinics, setting up in someone's dilapidated crumbling house, or holding on for dear life when a major storm would come through. It was always risky all around. We won't have to worry about that now, and this will also give us a more constant presence in Belen until the actual Promesa de Belen clinic can be built.

In February 2009, I travelled with Amazon Promise, a non-profit organization, to the upper Amazon basin of Peru where we held six medical clinics, provided free care to over 800 villagers, and delivered 2,000 much needed bed nets to the indigenous Aguarunas Indians.

In Peru with Amazon Promise and U of M Medical School Students September 2008.

In Peru September 2008 with U of Michigan Med Students working with Amazon Promise.

Amazon Promise remote jungle trip to the Pastaza River region of Peru in September, 2010 to deliver insecticide treated bed nets and hold medical clinics.

Jose was bitten by a venomous fer de lance pit viper snake while collecting palm fruit in the jungle. It took his friends 2 hours paddling in a canoe to reach our medical team in the village of 20 de Enero located in the Pacaya Samiria National Reserve. We were able to administer anti-venom and pain medicines which will hopefully save his leg. He is currently in the hospital in Iquitos where he is suffering severe complications from the bite. He has anaemia, an infection of the leg, and will have a surgical debridement this week Nov. 7th, 2010.