Watch the video above to learn how one woman’s vision became the Yanamono Clinic, providing life-saving medical care deep in the Amazon in Peru.
On the banks of the Amazon River, 50 miles downstream from Iquitos, Peru, the Yanamono Clinic delivers cost-effective, critically needed medical care in a chronically underserved region.
The clinic was founded in 1990 by Dr. Linnea Smith after she visited as a tourist and was struck by the complete absence of medical services for the local people. With a staff of five local Peruvians led by a U.S.-trained internal medicine practitioner, the clinic provides services including family medicine, dental care, birthing support, and treatment for snakebite, cholera, typhoid, malaria, and parasites.
Local Peruvian staff members outside Yanamono Clinic.
Grand Circle Foundation has supported the clinic since 2000, providing funding for a water treatment system and the implementation of the clinic’s Well-Child outreach program, which provides vaccinations, vitamins, and dental care.
Most recently, the Foundation funded $5,590 to purchase a thermo-coagulator machine and test kits to be used to test for cervical cancer. From founder Linnea Smith: "Cervical cancer is sadly common in Peru, and claims many lives each year, and is completely preventable, with early detection. Being able to perform these non-invasive tests on the women we serve would be a wonderful and truly life-saving service."
We thank all our generous travelers and donors who make this support possible—in the remote Peruvian Amazon, and throughout the world we travel.
Visit Yanamono and see the work of the Foundation firsthand during the Peruvian Amazon: Treks, Cruises & Indigenous Communities pre-trip extension to Peru: Machu Picchu & the Sacred Valley.
