Volunteer Acupuncture Care in the Peruvian Rainforest

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Please Help - Would You Walk Four Hours For Healthcare?

For the cost of a cup of coffee, you can help deliver healthcare to remote areas in need.

21+ hours from Rochester to Cusco, Peru. A four-hour ride into the heart of the Amazon jungle in a Hummer all-terrain vehicle. A one-hour boat ride further downriver into the rainforest. We're talking remote. In places like this, healthcare is hard to come by.

• In the Manu Rainforest Preserve, it's not unusual for patients to walk for four hours (that's 12-16 miles!) - with back pain! - just to reach the clinic to get pain-relieving acupuncture treatments. Then they walk four hours home!

• Project leader Laura Reyda told me that last year, she treated patients all day long and sometimes still had patients waiting to be treated at closing time. Imagine how hard it is at the end of the day to tell patients who walked 12 miles and waited hours in line that they now have to walk 12 miles home - and ask them to walk back earlier tomorrow with the hope of being treated!

• That's why I'm asking for your help. This year, I'd like to go with Laura and help her treat EVERY PATIENT that comes to her clinic - so that no one has to be turned away without treatment to walk miles home in the dark.

This volunteer medical outreach trip in Peru is in conjunction with the charity Project Buena Vista. Project Buena Vista is a grassroots charity located in the Manu Rainforest Preserve with the goals of promoting the preservation of Peruvian rainforest through educational programming and medical outreach.

This is an incredible opportunity to be of service to others. Please help me provide treatment to people who have minimal access to medical care due to their extremely remote location.

Your donation also helps protect the rainforest - by protecting their health, the local people are better able to engage in ethical ecological practices in order to sustain the environment that is their home.

• All proceeds go towards the cost of travel and other basic expenses. All funds raised over $2000 will be donated directly to Project Buena Vista.

• Thank you for your support!

• For more information on Project Buena Vista and its goals and other outreach programs, please visit www.ProjectBuenaVista.org

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You'll receive a hand-written thank you card as soon as I receive your donation. After the trip, you'll receive a full-color newsletter with photos and details of the trip.

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  • Guest
  • Donated on Apr 06, 2013
  • I wish I could come along. Best of luck to you all. Safe travels.

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  • Michelle Marcello
  • Donated on Apr 05, 2013
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  • Mike
  • Donated on Mar 20, 2013
  • You Go Girl! Have fun, do good work.

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Feb 28

$300 Milestone Met!

Update posted by Michelle Grasek at 08:07 pm

Thank you to everyone who has donated both online and in person at the office - so far your generosity has raised $307! This will cover my vaccinations, which I received on Monday, March 4th. We are continuing to work towards the overall goal of $2000, which will cover transportation

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6 donors
  • Guest
  • Donated on Apr 06, 2013
  • I wish I could come along. Best of luck to you all. Safe travels.

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  • Michelle Marcello
  • Donated on Apr 05, 2013
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  • Mike
  • Donated on Mar 20, 2013
  • You Go Girl! Have fun, do good work.

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  • Guest
  • Donated on Mar 03, 2013
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  • Emily A.
  • Donated on Feb 12, 2013
  • What a great cause. Have a safe trip!

$20.00
  • anne rice
  • Donated on Feb 10, 2013
  • Such a wonderful compassionate acupuncturist surely deserves to changes lives all around the world :D

$10.00

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US$310.00
raised of $2,000.00 goal
15% Funded
6 Donors

No more donations are being accepted at this time. Please contact the campaign owner if you would like to discuss further funding opportunities