Brazil - The Salesian Indigenous Missions in Sangradouro and Meruri welcome medical students from the "PAAPI" Project
Brazil – January 2024 – The 15th expedition of the Academic Project of Assistance to Indigenous Peoples (PAAPI) 2023/2024 began in the Salesian Indigenous Missions in Sangradouro and Meruri. The project is an initiative of students from the Faculty of Medical Sciences of Santos (UNILUS), whose objective is to promote health and prevent diseases in the indigenous territories of Boe-Bororo and Xavante, in Mato Grosso. The group of 34 students, from the first to the third year of medicine, accompanied by doctors and teachers, arrived on 13 January at the Salesian presences in Meruri and Sangradouro. There, the missionary volunteers organised a health centre and the various play, sports and painting activities with the children, as well as serving snacks to all participants.