Amazon Promise is a U.S.-based, non-profit organization founded to provide desperately needed medical care to remote populations living in the Upper Amazon Basin. Its Peruvian operations are headquartered in the jungle city of Iquitos. Amazon Promise provides medical services and health education to residents of Iquitos and neighboring Belen. Additionally, since 1994 it has conducted routine, volunteer-based medical outreach, local training and education in 32 remote jungle villages.

WFTW is working to help Amazon Promise expand its health-care delivery in Peru with plans to build Promesa de Belen, a fully operational, 6000-square-foot clinic that will serve and educate the community of Belen. The local government has donated the land it needs; WFTW is planning a benefit in 2009 in hopes of raising funds to make the clinic a reality.

WFTW's Involvement with Amazon Promise:

Amazon Promise was one of the first non-profits WFTW began working with. WFTW supports Amazon Promise's sustainable approach - the non-profit integrates western medicine with traditional Peruvian methods, creating a 'whole' approach to health care. While Amazon Promise's primary mission is to provide care, WFTW recognizes that it spends countless hours providing health education to the populations it serves. In this way, we believe Amazon Promise advances WFTW's mission of supporting organizations that make knowledge of the body, mind and spirit a top priority. We're proud of our work with Amazon Promise and look forward to helping it build the Belen Clinic in 2009.

Facts & Figures

• Eighteen percent of the Peruvian people live on less than $1 (US) a day. (World Bank)
  
• Thirty seven percent of Peruvian people live on less than $2 (US) a day. (World Bank)
• Peru's most devistating poverty is in rural areas like Iquitos where it is a structural problem and where food insecurity is chronic in most communities. (World Bank)