There are five missionaries in Atalaya, a Peruvian town just off the Amazon rainforest, who regularly travel from the city to the most remote Indigenous villages far in the forests.

They face great challenges. These missionaries travel the dangerous paths, even twelve hours or more, by boat and on foot. They often even risk their lives.

What Indigenous need most are medication. There are no doctors in the villages, so people too often die of the most basic diseases.

Medication is most needed for children who are born weak and otherwise malnourished.

Missionaries want to set up pharmacies near these villages; wooden houses where medicines would be stored and more easily accessible. Many diseases can be prevented and cured.

The money we collect at Operando will be used by missionaries to buy pharmacy-building materials, as well as to purchase medicines to stock pharmacies.

Your help is most welcome. We can save and improve many lives!