Hospital Boat Initiative
At this moment, more than 280 indigenous communities in the Amazon Region don’t have access to basic health care
—not to mention simple, but life-changing surgeries. To make matters even more difficult, a number of these communities are completely isolated, accessible only by boat.
As the scope of current services in the Amazon continues to grow, they are limited by the facilities available in the remote villages they serve, and by the power of their existing boats to take them within a given geographical radius.
We are excited to announce we’re building a hospital boat.
This will expand MMI Amazon’s health care services of primary, medical, dental, nutrition, and vision screening programs. In addition, they will now be able to provide ophthalmological consultations and surgeries, ambulatory surgical services and have accommodations for personnel and teams in even more remote regions in Peru, Brazil, and Colombia.
We believe this hospital boat is absolutely vital to the future health and spiritual transformation of people living in isolated communities in the Amazon.
Above: 3D rendering of the hospital boat. "Mau Ipata" means "House of Life" in Ticuna, the language of one of the indigenous tribes this boat will serve in the rural Amazon.
Serving nine community regions in the Amazon
Yellow: Rivers the Boat would travel (Amazon River, Igara Paraná River, Yavarí River)
Pink Dots: Location of the regions reached
Want to help us build a boat?
By investing in this hospital boat, you’ll make a crucial impact on the health and wellbeing of countless people for many years to come.
