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expansion, the Jalsuri clinic can now serve as a “hub clinic”
to 13 additional communities, serving over 5,000 people.
The group was also able to complete a small greenhouse
connected to the clinic where they will be able to grow vegetables and other medicinal herbs for treatment, as well as
help with heating the clinic’s birthing center.
dōTERRA Wellness Advocates and dōTERRA staff members
also held a training in Viacha on the basic application and
use of essential oils with over 60 local health-care workers
from seven different rural clinics representing approximately
82,000 people. The Healing Hands Foundation donated the
oils to the participating clinics at the training and, following
the expedition, delivered additional sets of essential oils to
replenish these supplies for over a year. Healing Hands also was
able to deliver physician diagnostic kits with important, basic
instruments which will be kept and used at the Jalsuri clinic.
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n May 2014, 16 dōTERRA Wellness Advocates and
nine dōTERRA Corporate staff members embarked
on the second dōTERRA Healing Hands Service
Expedition. In partnership with CHOICE Humanitarian,
the group traveled to La Paz, Bolivia, and then continued on to a small rural community on the Bolivian
Altiplano called Jalsuri. The purpose of the expedition
was to work alongside Jalsuri community members to
construct an expansion of their rural health clinic and to
train rural health workers about the application and use
of essential oils.
The group also had many opportunities for intercultural exchange with the community members. They worked alongside each other while building the clinic, as well as shared
other activities including friendship bracelets, a soccer
game, traditional dancing, milking cows, and home visits to
“shadow” a family for a typical morning in Jalsuri.
The four-room expansion of the Jalsuri rural health clinic
will now allow the clinic to receive an additional doctor and other health-care workers as well as resources
provided through a government program. With th \