The Ecuadorian staff of Charity Anywhere went again to the city of Otavalo for two main reasons: serve the people of this town under the significant letter of Covenant signed by the “Charity Anywhere Foundation” and the “Municipal Government of Otavalo”; and also to start a feedback on how the medical and dental equipment donated by the “Charity Anywhere Foundation” was used at the “JOYA” Medical Center owned by the Municipal Government of Otavalo. Thus, a one day expedition was organized with a team made of various professionals of the Medical field. Dr. Washington Zambrano DDS was our Local Mission Director; the Charity Anywhere staff also had the remarkable visit of its International Sponsor and Director on Mr. Dave Peery.
The NGO of Charity Anywhere was compromised to provide of dental, medical and surgical instrumentation to the JOYA Medical Center for its normal functioning. At the other hand, the Municipal Government of Otavalo should finish in this year the building of this Medical Center to eventually turn it into a nice hospital for the city of Otavalo. Charity Anywhere Foundation has been keeping this inter-institutional compromise step by step with a high efficient percentage; and will keep providing donations in direct relationship of how the finishing of the “LA JOYA” Medical Center turns like. This owed to the fact that providing donations on instrumentation or infrastructure totally depends on how soon the finishing of this medical facility is going to be at. We sure hope though that the Municipal Government of Otavalo would start and finish as soon as possible this construction project.  That will totally benefit those who need medical care in that poor area of Ecuador.
Our Medical Coordinator was Dr. Alberto Vargas (Practitioner-Epidemiologist); Dr. Gloria Polo (Intern Medicine Practitioner); Dr Carlos Grau (Ophthalmologist); Mss. Rosa Suntasig and Giselle Hams (Ophthalmology Assistants); and as our Charity Anywhere Volunteers on Lindsey Wyatt and Shelly Lucas (Register Nurses). We also counted with the participation of Dr. Olga Farinango (General Practitioner-Natural Medicine) who was helped by RN. Carmen Lascano. The consult was done in the following way:   Intern Medicine: 40; Ophthalmology 39; and General Medicine 47. That gave us a total 126 patients; of whom 24 were given 12 pair of glasses.

It was distributed a total of 18 dental-hygiene kits to kids on the area. The inhabitants of Otavalo city are known for their hospitality; specially after receiving some sort of help such as free medical and dental care.  Considering that the Medical Center building project is not finished yet;. Charity Anywhere Foundation will do a feedback to assure that the Municipal Government of Otavalo will honor its part of the mutual covenant. Charity Anywhere will provide not only instruments, but some training to the local professionals to assure a fine usage of the great donated medical equipment.
Our organization hopes to accomplish all the projects established for this year with the city of Otavalo in benefit to those in absolute misery and poverty. Doing communitarian service shows our comprehension of how rough it gets on Ecuadorian families to go over social problems like poverty, mal nutrition or illnesses. The Charity Anywhere staff in Ecuador will keep working in benefit of those who truly need Humanitarian Aid.

With our common desire to fulfil our already established commitment towards those in poverty; our staff started this dental project on Friday 25th of January, 2008 by 9:00 am until 15:00 pm. Students that attend to the elementary “Cenit” school; as well as very young children that work with their mothers on near by whole sale food markets were given dental care this time. Our team had the following volunteers: Dr. Isabel Zambrano DDS (Dental Paediatrician), Dr Ximena Tapia (General Dentist), Dr. Juan Pablo Del Valle (General Dentist) and two other dental students from the Quito Dental School to also help in our team. The Quito Dental School agreed to send dental students to Charity Anywhere local missions as part of the Covenant signed between Charity Anywhere and this Dental School. Charity Anywhere recently donated several dental chairs to the Quito Dental School; and consequently this institution really wanted to support us sending their last year students to be part of our dental clinic to the Cenit Center.  Mr Carlos Celin was once again our Equipment Technician, the volunteers RN Lindsay Wyatt and Shelly Lucas also joined us along to Mss Laura Sorenson- an aspirant to the Dental Hygiene Program who helped doing Cleanings. A total of 53 patients were seen that day on which 82 procedures were accomplished. These procedures included 23 Cleanings, 3 Exodontias, 35 Fillings and 21 Fluoride Treatments.

Once again, the goals of the “Charity Anywhere” Dental team were done: “To serve those who truly need Dental Care to help them be healthier and self sufficient”.

It was given a total of 240 prescriptions with an average of 2 medicines per prescription to each patient. Fifty glycemia tests were done on our patients; and it was great to know that neither one of them had any Diabetic suspicious symptoms. In Dentistry the following doctors, students and volunteers collaborated: Dr. Isabel Zambrano DDS (Dental Pediatrician), Dr. Ximena Tapia (General Dentist); Mss. Caroline Santorum, Mr. Pablo Garrido, and Freddy Patiño (Dental Students); Mr. Carlos Celin (Equipment Technologist), and Mss. Laura Sorensen (Dental Hygiene Student) doing Cleanings.The Dental attention was done in the following way:Total of Patients taken care of: 69Procedures done in them: