Los Médicos Voladores (LMV) — in Spanish, the flying doctors — is a volunteer-based nonprofit organization that aims to improve the health and well-being of geographically diverse peoples through education and the provision of no-cost, high-quality medical, dental, and optometric clinics. LMV serves Mexico, Central and South America, and migrant labor populations of the southwestern United States. Since 1975 LMV has offered more than 230 short-term medical, dental, optometry, and other healthcare clinics, treating over 7,000 patients per year.
LMV provides clinics in the following specific geographies: more than 20 villages in the northern Mexican states of Sonora and Baja California, Guatemala, Honduras, El Salvador, the Dominican Republic, and Peru in Latin America; and the Coachella Valley migrant camps in southeastern California
LMV clinics are open to anyone who can reach the clinic during open hours in the areas they serve. And they help improve villagers’ lives not only by treating their immediate health problems, but also by providing lasting tools that empower people to help themselves – including health education, especially for women and children, and clinic equipment for ongoing use by local healthcare professionals. LMV also runs a number of non-clinic projects that strengthen the villages they support through initiatives like education sponsorship, wheeled mobility and other equipment donations, and so on. They are proud to work closely with a broad range of partner organizations, including Rotary, Airline Ambassadors, and local medical and dental schools.
The next medical trip to Guatemala will be from July 31 thru Aug 8, in San Francisco del Alto. A team of 24 people will work Monday through Friday. They always need MD’s and Interpreters. Contact Milt Camp at miltcamp@aol.com. Also see photos from their recent Aug-2009 trip to Guatemala here.
LMV is also involved with a Rotary funded microbank in Santa Inez, just outside of Antigua.
To learm more about LMV, please visit their website.
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