Transforming lives on the Peruvian Amazon

This summer, Vine Trust will launch its fourth fully equipped medical ship, destined to provide primary health care to isolated communities on the Peruvian Amazon. MV Forth Hope, complete with a dental surgery, operating theatre, consultation rooms and a pharmacy will enable international medical and dental volunteers, alongside a team of local clinicians, to transform the lives of some of the world’s most vulnerable people.

Through its charitable work in Tanzania and Peru, Vine Trust has connected people from around the world to volunteer on life-changing projects, which support communities living in severe poverty. By the end of 2017, more than 3,217 volunteers will have helped to build 95 homes and have conducted more than 1.4m health care consultations and treatments through its medical, home-building and school expeditions.

From the ship’s official naming by HRH The Princess Royal, to its epic voyage across the Atlantic from Scotland to Peru, to the health care services it will provide, MV Forth Hope will help Vine Trust and its local partners to achieve extraordinary and sustainable development where it is needed most. According to Kenny Holt, medical programme manager, MV Forth Hope “will enable Vine Trust to significantly increase and enhance much needed primary health care services”. This relatively small vessel is expected to deliver more than two million consultations over the next 20 years, to communities who would otherwise be without access to primary health care.”