Give to receive
We, the A.M.O.R. projects team, have been developing the land at Km 38 under a legal agreement with the Seventh-day Adventist church for a year, preparing to start building the clinic and trade school in cooperation with mission trip teams from the States this spring and summer. The land, all 247 acres of it, is now available for us to purchase, and we're working together to raise $30,000 to buy it, by the end of March. The following is a letter written by one of our team, in order to shed light on some of our needs and future goals.
TOP TEN REASONS TO SPONSOR A CLINIC AND TRADE SCHOOL IN PERU:
1. It won't have chickens running through the hospital or monkeys in the operating room.
2. No killer bees lurking in the bushes.
3. Real restrooms and not just maggot-filled holes in the ground.
4. Jungle property at bargain prices! (247 acres of land in the Amazon basin for a mere $30,000.)
5. They'll be able to sweep the dirt off the clinic floor instead of sweeping the….dirt….floor.
6. You like earning more than $1 a day. (Poverty plays a huge role in health problems. Our trade school seeks to combat poverty through education to increase students' ability to earn income.)
7. You like eating. (Well, so do Peruvians. However, they often go hungry because they have no money. To address this, the trade school will include a fish farm, chicken farm, bee hives, and orchard to support the clinic and teach people skills that will enable them to afford better nourishment.)
8. When you run out of money, the hospital won't be required to "run out of treatment."
9. If you get appendicitis while in Peru, you can get surgery instead of dying because you can't afford the operation.
10. Because you care, and because we care. It really will make a difference. Give as if you were in our shoes asking for help.
The challenges that face a large majority of Peruvians are many and extreme. Little education. No work. Not enough food for the table. No money to obtain needed health or dental care. No hope to better their situation.
Touch of Love is a grassroots project started by a Peruvian doctor who saw these needs and sought not only to address the immediate health problems but also the poverty that sometimes causes and almost always complicates them.
ABOUT "TOUCH OF LOVE" AND A.M.O.R. PROJECTS
Ambassador Medical Outreach and Relief (A.M.O.R.) Projects is a nonprofit organization based in Loma Linda, CA. A.M.O.R. was founded to run medical outreach clinics for people in the poorest rural and jungle areas near Pucallpa, Peru. We realized that we need to build a clinic to better serve advanced medical and surgical needs in a centralized location; and a trade school to address the issues of poverty and unemployment. Thus, "Touch of Love" clinic/trade school project was born.
For the price of a restaurant meal, a ticket to a football game, or a short vacation, you can enable us to heal and relieve suffering for some of the poorest people in Peru – and ultimately, seek solutions to the intertwined problems of disease and poverty through education and easy access to quality medical care.
Every little bit helps. For example, $0.50 can buy a baby chick for the trade school's egg farm; $0.67 will buy one child anti-parasitic medication; $1.23 will cover the cost of treating one general medical patient; $17 can purchase a calf for the dairy; and $162 will purchase an acre of the land. Your help in any amount will enable us to move forward with the project in a very tangible way.
If you would like to donate, you can send a check payable to A.M.O.R. Projects to this address:
A.M.O.R. Projects
P.O. Box 212
Loma Linda, CA 92354
All donations are tax-deductible. Thank you for your support.
TOP TEN REASONS TO SPONSOR A CLINIC AND TRADE SCHOOL IN PERU:
1. It won't have chickens running through the hospital or monkeys in the operating room.
2. No killer bees lurking in the bushes.
3. Real restrooms and not just maggot-filled holes in the ground.
4. Jungle property at bargain prices! (247 acres of land in the Amazon basin for a mere $30,000.)
5. They'll be able to sweep the dirt off the clinic floor instead of sweeping the….dirt….floor.
6. You like earning more than $1 a day. (Poverty plays a huge role in health problems. Our trade school seeks to combat poverty through education to increase students' ability to earn income.)
7. You like eating. (Well, so do Peruvians. However, they often go hungry because they have no money. To address this, the trade school will include a fish farm, chicken farm, bee hives, and orchard to support the clinic and teach people skills that will enable them to afford better nourishment.)
8. When you run out of money, the hospital won't be required to "run out of treatment."
9. If you get appendicitis while in Peru, you can get surgery instead of dying because you can't afford the operation.
10. Because you care, and because we care. It really will make a difference. Give as if you were in our shoes asking for help.
The challenges that face a large majority of Peruvians are many and extreme. Little education. No work. Not enough food for the table. No money to obtain needed health or dental care. No hope to better their situation.
Touch of Love is a grassroots project started by a Peruvian doctor who saw these needs and sought not only to address the immediate health problems but also the poverty that sometimes causes and almost always complicates them.
ABOUT "TOUCH OF LOVE" AND A.M.O.R. PROJECTS
Ambassador Medical Outreach and Relief (A.M.O.R.) Projects is a nonprofit organization based in Loma Linda, CA. A.M.O.R. was founded to run medical outreach clinics for people in the poorest rural and jungle areas near Pucallpa, Peru. We realized that we need to build a clinic to better serve advanced medical and surgical needs in a centralized location; and a trade school to address the issues of poverty and unemployment. Thus, "Touch of Love" clinic/trade school project was born.
For the price of a restaurant meal, a ticket to a football game, or a short vacation, you can enable us to heal and relieve suffering for some of the poorest people in Peru – and ultimately, seek solutions to the intertwined problems of disease and poverty through education and easy access to quality medical care.
Every little bit helps. For example, $0.50 can buy a baby chick for the trade school's egg farm; $0.67 will buy one child anti-parasitic medication; $1.23 will cover the cost of treating one general medical patient; $17 can purchase a calf for the dairy; and $162 will purchase an acre of the land. Your help in any amount will enable us to move forward with the project in a very tangible way.
If you would like to donate, you can send a check payable to A.M.O.R. Projects to this address:
A.M.O.R. Projects
P.O. Box 212
Loma Linda, CA 92354
All donations are tax-deductible. Thank you for your support.
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