Project MARC
Reaching out to forgotten island communities by sharing our resources, time and love to help create a future for all children
Project MARC in Vanuatu
Imagine a South Pacific archipelago so remote that most people never heard of it, coastal communities so hard to reach that few vessels ever stop there, and mountain villages so isolated that they don't show up on any maps! We are describing Vanuatu (the former New Hebrides).
Now imagine being asked to help provide sustainable medical care to these "forgotten" communities.......
How would YOU go about it ??
After years of learning how to reach these island communities by sailing vessel, how to build small clinics, and how to train village health workers, Project MARC volunteer teams are achieving remarkable progress.
Due to a shortage of funding for the 2010 season, Project MARC will be scaling back its level of operations in Vanuatu. Two major expeditions will take place in August and September with a potential third expedition in October.
This August, Project MARC plans on working with the Vanuatu Ministry of Health to build a Medical Dispensary on the West Coast of Espiritu Santo. Unlike the smaller thatched hut aid-posts we have worked with in the past, this dispensary will be a major construction operation.
In September, the Vanuatu Ministry of Health will send rural and maternal health nurses to work alongside Project MARC's midwife teams. Maternal health workshops and midwife seminars will be conducted by joint teams along the Western shores of Santo's Big Bay.
Since both of these expeditions will not focus on providing clinical medical care, we cannot offer Clinical elective credit for medical students.
We are currently looking for support and funding for all of our operations in 2010. Any and all support is appreciated.
As it has for the past several years, Project MARC hopes to work with the tall ship Alvei on several expeditions. For more information about the tall ship Alvei, please visit: www.alvei.com
Henk & Nelleke Meuzelaar (Project MARC founders)
Seamus O'Bryan (Director of Health Infrastructure)
Dr. SueLin Hilbert (Medical Director)
Capt. Evan Logan (Director of Health Access)
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* Project MARC (Medical Assistance to Remote Communities) operates in Vanuatu under the auspices of Globus Relief, a US-based, nonprofit, nondenominational humanitarian assistance organization.
Project MARC Movies
The MARC@WORK movies on this webpage were produced by Peter Brouwer and Sylvia Steinert from video footage shot while traveling with Project MARC volunteer teams in September of 2005.
