The Doctors of the Amazon Rainforest Association
The Doctors of the Amazon Rainforest Association
We act with forms of treatment such as visual impairments, which rescue the sparkle in the eyes of the Amazon’s indigenous people through an improvement in the quality of life, social inclusion and the recovery of self-esteem in these people.
From the hands of health volunteers, project managers and logisticians, who enable the promotion of complete ophthalmological evaluations, ultimately allow for clinical care to be administered and for eye glasses to be delivered to the natives of the Amazon Rainforest.
The Amazonian Cataract Project’s name comes from the surgical actions that we carried out as a result of observing ever-so-present diseases such as cataracts and pterygium. The measures we have taken have been accomplished through sustainable and safe efforts that assisted patients of the Amazon who were identified as visually impaired.
Ophthalmological
consultations
Glasses
distributed
Surgeries
performed
Ophthalmological
consultations
Glasses
distributed
Surgeries
performed
Ophthalmological
consultations
Glasses
distributed
Surgeries
performed
Our expeditions for this project began in the Xingu Indigenous Park in Brazil in 2016, where we currently offer complete services including diagnoses, treatments and follow-ups for these ophthalmological diseases. For this reason, our practices executed in this park have been given the name Olhos do Xingu, and have achieved significant results through working with several tribes. But the project has not been limited to the Xingu in Mato Grosso, Brazil, and, starting in 2017, we also began missions in Roraima, Brazil, which have involved different tribes and ethnicities in addition to Mato Grosso do Sul, Brazil.