Health care access is the major problem for the people who live along the rivers in the Amazon River basin. Rivers are fast and treacherous. Some villages dont have boats with motors, which may mean a clinic is 8-16 hours away, with someone paddling a canoe. Some villages have canoes with little motors called peque peques, less than 15 horsepower, but they must also have gasoline. Gasoline requires money, and neither money nor gasoline is readily available in the jungle. Most areas have no public boats.
In order to assist the people with better health care access, we developed a simple plan: To bring as much basic care to the villages as possible and train the people to care for themselves.
