Our June 2010 Guyana team returned home this weekend. Over the past two weeks Ve’ahavta volunteers, Bekkie Vineberg (Site Coordinator), Dr. Sandy Buchman (physician), Seth Buchman (support) , Victoria Siu (pharmacy), Sarah Wilson (paramedic), and Sue Rebick (nurse) have been in Guyana on a medical mission. You can read more about their journey in our [...]

Hi everyone, The team got up super early this morning in order to be at clinic by 7 am so that they could ensure that they would see all remaining patients in Friendship before departing.  They just called from the bus which is on its way to Supenaam, the boat stelling. Before arriving in Supenaam [...]

Good evening everyone, Just a little note to let you know that the team ran their second last clinic today in Friendship, seeing about 60 people. Friendship is fairly remote and it took quite some time to travel there. Getting there including traveling for a few hours overland and then a boat ride down a [...]

Hello again, Just a short note to let you know that I did finally get to connect with Bekkie this afternoon. The team ran a very busy clinic all day in St Deny. It took about an hour to get there from Mainstay because of a very rough road, but they made it and will [...]

Hello everyone, The team has been running a clinic in St. Deny today. This will be a short email because there is limited cell phone access in that community and I haven’t been able to speak directly to Bekkie yet. She did leave me a message saying that everything and everyone is fine. Looking forward [...]

Good Morning, The team is doing well – they had a very busy day yesterday, seeing a total of 85 patients at clinic in Lima Sands and doing a significant amount of health promotion throughout the day. Bekkie noted that she has seen quite a few cases of infertility, which taken in context in a [...]

Good morning everyone, I hope you had a great weekend. The team found their Thursday clinic in Capoey to be so busy that they decided to extend their work their by another day. The clinic was quite busy, and they saw approximately 130 patients. A few of the more significant health issues they observed included [...]

Good morning everyone, I just got off the phone with Bekkie. Everyone is doing great and they are just waiting for the boat to pull up to take them across Lake Mainstay and over to Lake Capoey. Capoey is the next village and is a magical place. Bekkie and I visited the community and met [...]

Good Afternoon! Our team has now arrived in Mashabo, another Seventh Day Adventist Amerindian community located along the end of Lake Mashabo.  It is a beautiful village.  The local health post (see attached photo) services a population of about 400 people.  There is a large population of children in this particular community.  The team got [...]

Good morning, Just a little note to let you know that our team is running its first clinic today in Bethany.  The turnout has been steady so far with a larger number of elderly patients.  The team has been joined by a volunteer from the Lions Club of Bartica, Beverley, as well as by Melissa [...]

Hello everyone, Good morning! This is a short note to let you know that our team, our bags, and all of our supplies have arrived safely in Guyana and were cleared through customs without a hitch.  Bekkie called at about 8:30 this morning to let me know hat everyone was great and that the team [...]