A group of 13 Duke DPT 2nd-year students and Duke DPT alumni spent December 12-20, 2015, at St. Elizabeth’s Parish in Jamaica participating in a weeklong health care mission trip. The group served as the staff for a stroke camp that provides high intensity physical therapy for members of a rural farming community who have suffered a stroke. Resources and access to rehabilitation and long-term care are virtually non-existent.

The camp is organized four times per year through the non-profit organization Friends of the Redeemer United (FORU) whose mission is to encourage a healing process through awareness and involvement in spiritual, social, educational, and health-related services in rural Jamaica.