“Open 24 Hours” — Amazon Promise’s Work in Peru
Watch the latest video by filmmaker Brooklyn Demme about the work of Amazon Promise in northeast Peru. Narrated by Patty Webster, Founder and President.
Watch the latest video by filmmaker Brooklyn Demme about the work of Amazon Promise in northeast Peru. Narrated by Patty Webster, Founder and President.
We have officially reached the landmark of 200,000 women screened in our efforts to bring woman-centered, high quality health care to some of the most rural and underserved communities around the world.
The July Amazon Promise medical outreach team traveled far, by bus, boat, and on foot to reach the jungle communities of Amazonas and San Francisco on the lower Maranon River, providing medical and dental care to 754 people during four clinic days.
Peru’s coronavirus fatality rate is now the highest in the world, surpassing Belgium and exceeding even Brazil and the U.S. In Iquitos, Loreto Province, where the Amazon Promise office is located, the Regional Health Ministry estimates that over 4000 people have died from COVID-19.
Patty Webster is not a medical professional. But one day, while working as a tour guide in the Peruvian Amazon rainforest, she found herself using a traveler’s sewing kit to close a wound on a boy from a local village…