Peru Global Outreach

Laura Lepczyk, center, with Program Committee Chair Jenny Boettcher and President Fred Ollison III, was the guest speaker at the April 11, meeting of Rotary of Grosse Pointe. Lepczyk, who is obtaining her Doctor of Osteopathic Medicine from Michigan State University Medical School, recently went on a medical mission to Peru, funded in part by Grosse Pointe Rotary and Rotary International. Peru Global Outreach started in 2009 and has delivered over $1 million in medical supplies and treated over 10,000 patients. Thirty medical students and 30 professionals go on the two-week mission. There are three steps in the program: 1) visit medical schools and hospitals in Lima, 2) treat patients in Iquitos, and 3) travel down the Amazon on boat, taking the clinic into the jungle. For more information, go to www.peruglobaloutreach.com. (Photo by George R. McMullen Jr.)