HIV testing at midnight.

Thanks to Digicel, the RAM Guyana team is giving residents in region nine one more reason to get a health check - a chance to win a touch screen smart phone with eight gigs if data storage. The promotion is running day and night at the annual Amerindian Heritage festival held this year in St. Ignatious village.

Pictured here are the three tented councilor stations in action - taking the services to the people. Every client tested, receives their results instantly in this confidential setting - and is enterred to win the fancy Nokia camera phone. The grand drawing will be held on October tenth after the completion of 'National Week of Testing' another annual event that this year falls adjacent to Heritage.

Special thanks to the Regional AIDS Action Comittee, GRCS, the Regional Administration and YCG for making these activities possible.

Non-medical volunteering

Not a Doctor, not a problem. Our volunteers are more often than not serving behind the scenes as critical support persons. For every doctor and dentist that treats a client in a remote village, there are many like Aaron Akbar - pictured here, keeping the equipment in order and preparing for the next expedition. Aaron is a motor bike enthusiast and technician who donated many grimy hours towards rehabilitating the RAM dirt bike.

Trash diggers

These young boys are seen on a Saturday afternoon hanging out at the overflowing Lethem dump site. The increasing development and commerce in the Central Rupununi, has created a growing waste disposal problem for the local government.

This one official site must be maintained to help prevent the countless illegal dumping grounds that litter the area. Additional signs will also be required as many cart-loads are clearly being dumped far short of their intended destination - in the savanna and gravel pit on the way to the site.