04/08/2025
The Centro de Prótesis & Terapia Física, the first non-profit prosthetic and therapy clinic in the Dominican Republic dedicated to serving amputees, children with birth defects and victims of violence, recently received generous support once again from doTERRA’s Healing Hands Foundation.
A group of volunteers recently traveled from the Greater Portland, Maine area to assist with the clinic's ongoing construction efforts, bringing along doTERRA’s 72-hour Emergency Hygiene Kits. This clinic had previously benefited from a Healing Hands Matching Gifts Award, made possible through Wellness Advocate Deborah Webb and her doTERRA advocates, customers, family and friends when it first broke ground in 2019.
During the visit, the hygiene kits were distributed to patients while the volunteer medical team provided care conducting their second prosthetic fitting clinic. At this time, they have served over 375 patients at many mobile clinics in the Dominican Republic and other southern countries, most recently in Venezuela.
From founder Gavriel Nuel Jacobo, “The dedication and enthusiasm of the volunteers made a significant impact, bringing the clinic closer to its goal of expanding services to those in need in South American and Caribbean countries while also delivering much needed natural solution essential oil products and emergency hygiene supplies from the generosity of the doTERRA Healing Hands Foundation”.