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MMI Amazon!
MMI Amazon!
Where the road ends, the clinic begin
In the Amazon Triple Frontier, where Colombia, Peru and Brazil meet, there are no roads. For the indigenous and river communities here, the nearest doctor can be days away. So we bring the clinic to them. The Mau Pata, our hospital boat, travels upriver to communities that have rarely, if ever, seen medical care, carrying consultation rooms, a dental clinic, a laboratory, a pharmacy and surgical suites.
And we don’t sail alone. Every project is carried out by a short-term mission team with surgeons, dentists, optometrists and volunteers who give one or two weeks to serve alongside our Amazonian crew. Mobilizing those teams is how this ministry works. Without participants, the boat does not sail. Together we care for the whole person, the way Jesus did: one team restores a grandmother’s sight while another sits with her family, her children, the men and women of the village. That is what we mean by Real Love, Real Life and since 2004 more than 170,000 patients have received it.
