Dr. Soledad greets patients in Agua Blanca

Exciting things are happening for the indigenous people of Mexico. It all started in the small Yucatán village of Huhí.

From 2001 to 2009, A Promise of Health worked in more than 25 rural municipalities in Yucatán, serving 158,000 people. The majority are Maya, who live in extreme poverty. To meet this need, A Promise of Health perfected its Medicine Wheel program.  December 2009, A Promise of Health turned its program over to Yucatan’s Rotary Clubs. Today, we only operate in rural Oaxaca.

The medicine wheel was sacred to Native Americans living on the Great Plains. To them the wheels were a place to go for spiritual renewal and prayer. To the native people of Mexico, our Medicine Wheels are an answer to their prayers to bring health to their people.

In each Medicine Wheel is a cluster of villages and small towns that can locally be served by one doctor. The doctor lives within the circle, becoming part of the community. Living in a wheel are 20,000 to 40,000 people. A doctor rides circuit, going from village to village each week, seeing patients and bringing medicine.

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