Project Belize completed its fourteenth annual medical trip to Belize in May 2000. A group of doctors, nurses, and other members travelled to the Central American country of Belize and provided medical treatment to 1289 people living in the remote villages of southern Belize.
Project Belize developed from a small group of doctors, dentists, nurses, and social workers from the Nacogdoches area who were involved with the development of the East Texas Community Health Clinic in 1987. The group responded to a request by Amigos International to visit Belize and provide critically needed dental and medical care in some of the more remote villages of this small country. The experience was rewarding enough that the group incorporated and has made annual trips since then. In recent years, the group has invited several nursing students from SFASU, providing them with an excellent experience in cross cultural primary health care.
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