Project Belize completed its fourteenth annual medical trip to Belize in May 2000. A group of doctors, nurses, and other members traveled 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.
Project Belize
is self funded, but has received donations from several individuals for
the purchase of medicines. Special thanks this year are due to Dr.
and Mrs. Robert Carroll, Dr. and Mrs. John Decker, Dr. David and Mrs. Sanderson,
Lions Club, the Altrusa Club, Stephen Smith, and Dr. Robert Lehmann and
staff for their contributions.
For the past
several years, Dr. Robert Lehmann and his staff have processed and coded
glasses that have been donated and collected by the local Lion's Club for
each year's trip.
Bruce McNellie, fitting glasses in Belize.
Dr. Quinn Robinson, Medical Director, working
in Belize, Central America
Kimbra McNellie and Greg Sanderson screening
and treating patients in the village of Aguacate, Belize, Central America
Amber Goodall, SFASU 
Nursing
Student, and Eric Lawrence, SFASU pre-med student, providing treatment
to a Mayan baby in Belize.
Amber Goodall and Eric Lawrence, assisting another
family.
Joe
Bartnik organizing and dispensing medications.
Project Belize is a non-profit,
tax exempt 501-C-03 corporation. All donations are tax exempt and
go solely toward the purchase of medications for each year's trip.
Donations may be sent to
Project Belize, % Bruce McNellie, 5922 Princess
Lane, Nacogdoches, TX 75961. Dr. Quinn Robinson is the medical director,
Pam Mueller, the treasurer, and Bruce McNellie is the trip coordinator.
For additional information about the group and its work, write or email
Bruce McNellie at: rmcnellie@sfasu.edu
For more pictures on Project Belize 2000 click here.
For information on travel in Guatemala and visiting Tikal National Park,
visit:
http://www.geocities.com/tikal.htm
or click here.
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