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Medical Caravans

The medical caravan ministry is the main evangelistic tool of Vozandes Community Development. Approximately once a month, staff members visit rural areas and poor city neighbourhoods, offering care where no public health facilities exist. Typically, half of the places we visit are new to our ministry. 

It started in the 1960s, when doctors began travelling to areas of Ecuador with no access to healthcare and taking much-needed medicines with them. However, it wasn’t until September 1993, when Vozandes Community Development obtained a truck to take medical professionals to these areas, that the medical caravan ministry really began. In 2004 a new, purpose-built caravan replaced the old, worn-out one. 

One goal of the medical caravan ministry is to serve the people with the healthcare they need. However, the primary goal is to share the Gospel with as many people as possible. So, the caravan team partners with churches and missionaries in the rural areas, shows half-hour segments of The Jesus Film every night, and hands out many tracts and literature.

We are trained healthcare professionals dedicated to taking the Gospel to some of the most rural and forgotten areas of Ecuador. Typically, our team consists of seven members including a couple of doctors, a dentist, and assistants.

We realise that spending one week in a community providing healthcare is not sufficient to meet all of the needs of the individuals in that community. So, we’re encouraging communities to invest money in bringing a doctor in on a regular basis.