Ecuador >Since 1998, VIDA has partnered with Child Family Health International (CFHI) to equip teams of doctors and medical students who travel to indigenous Shuar communities of the Ecuadorian Amazon in efforts to establish primary health clinics in the region.

VIDA expanded its program in Ecuador in 2001 to include the shipment of ocean freight containers carrying large amounts of medical supplies and equipment that have been distributed to health facilities in the Andean town of Cuenca and in the main cities of Quito and Guayaquil. In 2003 VIDA also partnered with the Junta de Beneficencia de Guayaquil, a 115-year old charity that runs 4 large hospitals as well as several clinics and nursing homes in this large port city providing mostly free medical service to over over half a million of the poorest each year, to provide them with the large quantities of medical supplies and equipment that they desperately need.