Community Health Worker Training with MGY Organization - July 2022
MGY Aware, an organization working to build health capacity in remote rural areas, was back in the Peruvian Amazon in July 2022, after a pandemic-forced absence. The demand for ongoing and additional training was overwhelming, with 33 community health workers, known locally as "promotores de salud" participating in the multi-day workshop at our Madre Selva Biological Station, and we had to turn away some additional would-be participants for lack of space and resources.
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MGY was founded in 2011 by students from the AT Still University School of Osteopathic Medicine in Arizona, following a visit to the Peruvian Amazon where group leader Daniel Ebbs and others assisted with construction of the Orosa Clinic, just upriver from Madre Selva. They recognized that lack of access to training and support was the greatest roadblock in developing local health capacity in isolated communities, so they set out to change that. Those founding students are now medical professionals in various disciplines, and are scattered across the USA. The founding members have been joined by others with a similar passion for capacity building, and MGY has branched out beyond the Peruvian Amazon but Project Amazonas is delighted to continue to grow our partnership with them. To learn more more about MGY (and the origin of their name), do visit MGY's website. Enjoy the photos below!
Thank You!
A. big shout-out to the MGY team of Daniel Ebbs, Starr Matsushita, Justin Yoshida, Carolina Espindola Camacho, Maggie O'Daniel, Kendal Schaetzle, Ashley Oalical and Daniel Muller, as well as medical student Rosie Holmes from the University of Dundee for all their hard work and fund-raising.
You can help us make the July 2023 training session even better than the 2022 session. Your financial support enables us to train more participants and have additional training materials and supplies. Donate directly to MGY or you can donate via Project Amazonas' GlobalGiving campaign to support the 2023 workshop. By donating on the GlobalGiving portal US and UK donors automatically receive tax receipts valid for charitable contributions in their home countries. Thank you for your support!