Operación Compasión’s volunteers visit an elderly homeless man under a highway bridge, offering comfort and a warm meal.
Raphi Torres and Antonio Cintrón, outreach workers of the harm reduction program of Punto Fijo, tour impoverished communities of San Juan in their old Pontiac.
A nurse of Iniciativa de Paz comforts Marguerita, who lost four children in a three-year span to Hurricane Maria, health complications, and street violence.
Two nurses from Iniciativa de Paz accompany Jazimirio Figueron, as he prepares to cross the river, which will allow him to return home.
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.
Raphael Torres outside of Punto Fijo’s service car.
In underprivileged neighborhoods, volunteers of the program Operación Compasión wait for participants to join and receive medical attention, a friendly conversation, and partake in their needle exchange program.
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.
Raul, an HIV positive recovered drug user since 1993, gets blood drawn for Hepatitis C testing. Nurse Rualis Lopez offers comfort as needles now provoke a tense reaction in him.
The staff of Iniciativa de Paz converses with Maria Dolores, offering care, warmth, and support which she rarely receives. Her daughter leaves below the apartment but suffers from mental health issues, making her barely able to care for Maria.
A visiting nurse from Spain volunteers to clean and bandage sores resulting from opioid injections, Fentanyl in particular.
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 young volunteer joyfully converses with her peers inside the van of Operación Compasión.
A participant of Punto Fijo’s harm reduction program warmly greets Raphi and Antonio. Antonio later explained that half of the regular participants, whom he cares for as family, disappeared after hurricane Maria. “I think my people died” he sadly stated.
A volunteer of the program Operación Compasión speaks with participants who will receive a warm meal and a cup of coffee, along with harm reduction items such as clean syringes and condoms.
Jazimiro Figueron, 90, crosses the river to head back home, braving the elements during a rain storm.