Tuesday, October 4, 2016

Life Long Missioner



My name is Amy Anderson and I have been a lay missioner for all of my adult life.  I started working in an orphanage in Mexico, then in group homes for orphans in Venezuela, then 12 years in Guatemala working with a child sponsorship organization and doing health promotion.  In between these times I worked in Nicaragua and was a few months in Bolivia.  The last country prior to where I am now was my three years in Panama doing promotion of women and construction projects of bridges (not my most suitable work but someone was needed to finish the project).  

For the past 14 years I have been in the Amazon area of Ecuador working at a small clinic.  I am the clinic coordinator working under the parish priest who is the founder and director of the clinic.  We have daily medical and dental consults as well as vision eye exams for glasses.  Several times a year there are groups of surgeons who come to operate and the clinic becomes an ambulatory surgery hospital for anything from hernias to cataracts.  I enjoy the work, the people of Ecuador are welcoming and the nature is beautiful.