Two nurses from Iniciativa de Paz accompany Jazimirio Figueron, ninety years old, as he prepares to cross the river and return home.
Jazimirio's wife died of complications related to emphysema during Hurricane Maria, in 2017. As the river was raging and overflowing, no one was able to reach them for days.
Important items on top of a patient’s tv monitor.
In underprivileged neighborhoods of San Juan, volunteers of the program Operación Compasión await for injecting drug users who will receive medical attention and the opportunity to exchange syringes.
David Reyes Baerga, an occupational therapist at the PITIRRE center briefs patients on communicating with illustrations about their current state of mind on one half of a blank page, and their ideal one on the other.
A nurse of Iniciativa de Paz listens to a new patient, Marguerita, explaining how she lost four children in a three-year span to Hurricane Maria, the contraction of meningitis in jail, and a hit and run under investigation.
Raphi Torres, outreach worker of the harm reduction program Punto Fijo.
Following a bad fall, ninety-eight years old Maria Dolores who lives in the remote village of Utuado, has been bedridden for over 20 years.
Iniciativa Comunitaria’s nocturnal outreach program tours San Juan every week. Tonight they stop under a highway bridge to offer food and comfort to an elderly homeless man.
The staff of Iniciativa de Paz converses with Maria Dolores, offering care, warmth, and support which she rarely receives. Her daughter suffers from mental health issues, making her barely able to care for Maria.
An exhausted volunteer drifts in and out of sleep, as Operación Compasión’s van is headed home at 5.30 am, after a full night touring San Juan and caring for its homeless population.
The team of Operación Compasión makes a pit stop at a local chapel for a moment of meditation, half way through their night route schedule.
A visiting nurse from Spain volunteers to clean and bandage sores resulting from opioid injections, such as Fentanyl.
A young volunteer joyfully converses with her peers inside the van of Operación Compasión.
