Building Bridges With Ecuador

The team consists of approximately 50 participants.  We welcome singles, couples, and families from all walks of life and with various kinds of skills.

People from all faith and spiritual orientations are welcome.  This team engages in no biblical proselytizing.  The spiritual nature of the trip is as each member defines and experiences it through the work and service we engage with others and the relationships we form in that process.

Team members can choose from several work opportunities:

(1)    The community health clinics.  Physicians and nurses from all medical specialties are welcomed.

The team provides basic health care services and public health education. They provide care in both preestablished clinics and in remote villages where patients have no access to health care. The medical care provided to patients tends to be primary care. Difficult problems are referred to appropriate facilities in Otavalo or Quito. Translators are provided for each physician-nurse team.

The medical team also consists of an ophthalmology team who screens and refracts vision, diagnoses eye disease and dispenses glasses.

(2)    The community schools.   The team works with elementary aged children by providing an arts/crafts program in the schools.  You do not need to be a teacher to work with this team; you only need an interest in working with school age children. 

(3)    The community centers.   The team engages in various projects to advance community resources such as construction, painting, gardening, etc.

(4)      Translation Help.   

We also need individuals who are fluent in Spanish to work as a translator for the team.  We use translators to help team members in all the areas listed above.