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A LETTER FROM THE FIELDBOLIVIA · AMAZON

Recovered, and back in the Amazon

After an illness in Haiti that conventional medicine gave him little hope of surviving, Rik writes from the Bolivian Amazon about the work he has gone back to.

Many greetings from the Bolivian Amazon! Many possibly know that I became very serious ill in Haiti in March 2016, to the point that conventional medicine gave me little hope. Thanks to God and years of research, via Internet and Webinars, trying to find alternatives because of lack of medication, and taking the right decisions, I feel more healthy then ever now.

My own healing

One thing, as an MD, is helping other patients to take an alternative approach when you know that conventional medicine will fail. Another thing is to treat yourself taking an alternative approach. But still, I was doubtful. To my own big surprise, the healing of my totally diseased body was even quicker then many alternative prognoses gave me, while conventional prognoses were disastrous.

Back to Haiti

Proof is that I travelled already back from Belgium, Europe, to Haiti in October-November 2016. This hurricane, category 4-5, was the worst in more then 50 years that crossed over the Haitian coastline between Haiti and Jamaica. It's on this coastline where I got a clinic and about 200 orphans since the Earthquake in Haiti of January 2010. Both buildings were destroyed, and on top of this, nobody knew where the orphans were. After 15 hours driving from Port-au-Prince, through mud and crossing rivers because the bridges were destroyed, we could reach the place, save, cure, feed and relocate the children, and even help in neighbor villages where we found a thousand death people and many wounded.

Then I returned to Belgium to further treat myself. While treating my own disease around December and January, we were able to help and give Christmas presents to the Pakistani and Haitian orphans where I have been working. In the meantime, I started extra studies for MD's in Epigenetics and Immunology, and succeeded already in January with success my exams.

Where no other doctor wants to go

Still in January, I left again to Bolivia, where I am helping right now the poorest of the poor since I started there in 1986. I have clinics and medical teams all over the place, in a country 36 times my own country and 100 times less accessible. Because of an already good organized medical system, regarding Bolivia, in the Andes Mountains where the Aymara's and Quetchua's, the ancient Inca's, live since Evo Morales, an Aymara Indian, came to power, we are focusing now more and more on the huge region between the Andes and the Amazon where health care is as good as non-existent.

Although we were robbed there, the mission base and the medical material, by the Cocaine mafia in Santa Ana de Yacuma in the Bolivian Amazon, we continue the work about 700 miles North-East and South-East of Santa-Cruz de la Sierra, near the Brazilian boarder. I am now just back from an expedition.

The silent killer

There we concentrate on what we call the silent killer. Most children don't receive the necessary 2100 Kcal a day and this provokes malnutrition in all kind of stages. Immunity goes down and essential organs like liver, heart and kidneys don't function properly anymore. This goes together with the all-present parasites in this region. Earlier studies we did showed that each average child has 400% parasites in his own body. This means thousands, ten thousands of larva's and eggs in the intestines, and sometimes the liver via blood, of the child. The immune system goes so fast down that the body collapses because other diseases take over. Therefore, everybody needs at least multivitamin and anti-parasite medication.

I don't know if you know this, but each day 28.000 children under five die from only 5 easily treatable diseases.

That's like 100 planes full of babies who fall down on let's say New York City.

Even yesterday, I saw a lady who lost half of her children. She got 8 children and 4 died before even becoming 5 years. Temperatures here are close to 100 degrees Fahrenheit and humidity is more then 90%. I feel tired now. I want to thank all who really partner with this mission in name of my teams and the thousands of patients who don't have a cent.

With gratitude,Rik & CarolienDr. Rik Celie

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