Romayne Wheeler spends much of the year performing concerts around the world to benefit the Tarahumara, in doing so, he has built a network of supporters and friends who organize concerts and fundraisers, and who donate generously.

Recently, Romayne built a 7 room Medical Center in his remote hamlet of Retosachi where a full-time nurse provides health care to 400 families in the area of Munérachi. The Medical Centes is also a storage and distribution point for food and other commodities in short supply

The Tarahumara Relief Fund is used to:

Operate the Retosachi Medical Center

• Staff the Center with a live-in nurse who will provide basic medical services to over 400 families
• Reduce infant mortality (now 50% by age 10)
• Practice preventive medicine including vaccinations
• Incorporate appropriate tradicional herbal medicine
• Provide health education
• Transport critical patients for advanced care
• Coordinate a visiting dentist program

Foster Development For Sustainability

• Educate the Tarahumara for the introduction of technology to foster self-sufficiency
• Fund scholarships for secondary, technical and graduate studies to gain needed skills
• Maintain a parasite-free water supply to homes
• Capture and store rooftop rain for family gardens
• Introduce irrigation, composting and intensive cultivation methods to multiply garden productivity

Provide Famine And Other Relief

• Sustain the community for an independent future
• Deliver and distribute beans, corn and other staples
• Provide blankets and other assistance as needed

Foundation operating costs include medical supplies & pharmaceuticals, transport of patients, water tanks & pipe, fence to exclude animals from gardens, irrigation equipment, tools, food, blankets and much more.