Dear Friends,
In the midst of a May snowstorm here in Breckenridge, I’ve put my personal bags in my kitchen as I get ready for my journey to deliver malaria treatments to communities in South Sudan.
I’ll first head to Denver, bound for New York, then on to Dubai, Juba, a refugee camp in Yida and then finally by ground up into the Nuba Mountains. There I’ll connect with the Secretary of Health distribute through 20+ clinics in the area. This particular shipment has, among other basic medical supplies, enough medicine to treat 30,000 people for malaria.
This will the second shipment this year to stock up before the rainy season makes road impassable for several months. When the roads dry, we plan to send two more shipments in October and December.
There is still a blockade of humanitarian aid from the northern government of Sudan, so these supplies have to be essentially smuggled through South Sudan at considerably more risk and expense. The Nuba people are working hard to develop a lasting peace agreement that will allow larger aid organizations to enter from the North and make my contributions no longer necessary, but for now we are one of a very small group of smaller organizations providing any humanitarian aid in the area.
I’ll report back when I return to Breckenridge in a few weeks, but until then. you can make a donation here.
Sincerely,
C. Louis “doc pj” Perrinjaquet, MD, MPH
Medical Director, Doctors to the World
