Community Development Vozandes is a department of HCJB’s Health Care Division in Ecuador. The work in community development began in 1979 out of a concern to provide preventative and curative health care for rural people in Ecuador who could not easily take advantage of HCJB’s two hospitals in Quito and Shell. Community Development Vozandes operates seven urban family practice clinics; a rural family practice clinic in San Lorenzo; a medical caravan ministry for remote communities; a tropical disease/parasite laboratory; a clean water program to help communities obtain clean drinking water & sanitation, and programs to train rural health workers/promoters in several provinces.

Clean Water Projects

Few rural Ecuadorian communities have convenient access to suitable quality drinking water. Additionally, a follow-up program provides training in water system management and hygiene. Evangelism, discipleship and pastoral training are an integral part of the program. When the poor and needy seek water, and there is none ... I the God of Israel will not forsake them. Isaiah 41:17

Caravans

The medical caravan ministry is the main evangelistic tool of Vozandes Community Development. Approximately once a month, staff members visit rural areas and poor city neighborhoods, offering care where no public health facilities exist.

Clinics

These family practice and eye clinics bring affordable, Christ-centered medical care primarily to mainly poor people in Quito and other cities of Ecuador. Hopefully, people will find both physical and spiritual healing when they walk through the door of one of our clinics.