Soul of the Peruvian Andes

What Soul of the Peruvian Andes does

Soul of the Peruvian Andes (SoPA) is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit charity founded in 2006 by Dr. Luis Rebatta, a native of Huancavelica, Peru, and headquartered in Woodside, New York. The organization delivers humanitarian medical aid to impoverished communities in the Andean region of Peru — primarily the Province of Castrovirreyna in the State of Huancavelica, with additional missions in Cieneguilla, Pampas Grande-Ancash, San Mateo, and other remote communities. Its core offering is multi-day medical campaigns deploying teams of volunteer doctors, surgeons, dentists, optometrists, nurses, and other specialists who donate their time, supported by follow-on case management that transports complex cases to Lima for surgery, oncology treatment, cardiology, and reconstructive care at SoPA's expense.

The organization operates on a donation-only revenue model, explicitly receiving no public or government funding. Volunteers self-fund their two-way airfare to Peru; SoPA covers in-country lodging, transportation, and food, as well as treatment costs for patients referred to Lima. Fundraising is driven by an annual gala event (e.g., the 2024 gala at The Elks in Summit, NJ), recurring individual donations via its Bloomerang-powered donation portal, and a Peruvian-channel donation website (SoPACares.org.pe) launched in 2018 to accept Peruvian Soles. The "At Altitude" photo exhibit and merchandise store, launched in 2025, adds a secondary commercial channel.

SoPA's workforce is 100% volunteer, with no paid personnel, and the organization has scaled from 12 volunteers in 2009 to 68 by 2015, with 45 health professionals participating. There is no proprietary technology product; the platform is operational — combining volunteer recruitment, annual campaign logistics, and donor stewardship — rather than software- or AI-enabled. Impact scaled to 5,165 patients treated and 6,126 procedures performed across three 2024 missions, with an additional July 2025 San Mateo campaign delivering 1,530 individual cases.

Name

Soul of the Peruvian Andes

Legal name

Soul of the Peruvian Andes

Website

https://sopacares.org

Company type

Private

Founded year

2006

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

11–50 employees

Short description

Soul of the Peruvian Andes is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit charity that delivers free medical care to impoverished communities in Peru's Andean region through volunteer healthcare professional missions, supported entirely by donations with no government funding.

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akta.pro rank

Headquarters

HQ city

Woodside

HQ country

United States

HQ region

North America

Offices1 record

Markets served

GTM type

B2C

Offering type

Services

Cost components

Operations, Personnel, Others, Marketing or Sales

Revenue model

1. Donations: SoPA is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit that operates entirely on donations. The organization receives no public or government funding. 100% of donations are used directly in health campaigns.

Pricing tiers

Go-to-market motion1 record

Distribution channels1 record

Marketing channels4 records

Core offering

Soul of the Peruvian Andes (SoPA) is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit charity that organizes and deploys volunteer medical teams to provide free healthcare services to impoverished communities in remote Andean regions of Peru. Its core offerings include scheduled medical campaigns delivering general medicine, optometry, dentistry, gastroenterology, obstetrics, geriatrics, psychology, and surgical care, plus long-term patient treatment that arranges and funds advanced care in Lima for complex cases.

Product overview

Soul of the Peruvian Andes is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit charity that provides humanitarian medical aid to communities in the Andean region of Peru. The organization's core offering is its Medical Campaigns program, which deploys teams of volunteer medical professionals (doctors, nurses, dentists, optometrists, surgeons, and specialists) to deliver healthcare services including General Medicine, Optometry, Dentistry, Gastroenterology, Obstetrics, Geriatrics, Psychology, and Surgery. Supporting programs include a Volunteer Program for recruiting medical professionals and general volunteers, Fundraising Events for financial support, a Newsletter Program for community engagement, and Long-term Patient Treatment for cases requiring ongoing care in Lima. SoPA operates entirely through volunteer workforce with no paid personnel.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Products and services

• Medical Campaigns Organized medical missions bringing teams of volunteer doctors, nurses, dentists, optometrists, podiatrists and related professionals to provide immediate healthcare to underserved Andean communities in Peru.
• Medical Services Clinical healthcare services including General Medicine, Optometry, Dentistry, Gastroenterology, Obstetrics, Geriatrics, Psychology, and Surgery provided during outreach missions to Andean communities in Peru.
• Long-term Patient Treatment Follow-up medical care including transportation, food, and lodging for patients requiring treatment in Lima, covering conditions such as club foot, cancer, heart conditions, and congenital disabilities.

Quantifiable outcome

• 5,165 patients treated and 6,126 procedures performed in 2024 alone
• +2 more outcomes

Named customers8 records

Segments2 records

Ideal customer profiles2 records

Technology focussed No

API detail

Has API

No

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Scale indicators13 records

Recent moves6 records

Expansion highlights5 records

Broad incumbents

• Partners in Health: Larger global health nonprofit delivering medical care to the world's poorest people. Comparable to SoPA in mission (healthcare for the poor) and in operating clinics/campaigns in Latin America, but operates paid clinics year-round rather than short volunteer missions.
• AmeriCares: Disaster relief and global health nonprofit supporting health programs for people in poverty. Adjacent to SoPA's humanitarian medical-aid focus but oriented around medical supply delivery and donations rather than deployed volunteer clinicians.
• Project HOPE: Global health and humanitarian aid organization operating volunteer medical programs worldwide. Comparable volunteer-medical-aid overlap with SoPA but with broader geography and paid operational infrastructure.
• Doctors Without Borders / Médecins Sans Frontières: The benchmark international medical humanitarian organization. Similar volunteer-driven medical-aid model to SoPA but vastly larger, with paid field staff and continuous crisis-response operations across many countries.
• International Medical Corps: Global humanitarian organization delivering emergency medical relief and longer-term healthcare. Similar medical-aid mission to SoPA but at much larger scale with paid staff and disaster-response operations.

Others

• ChildFund International: International child-welfare nonprofit operating community development and health programs in developing countries including Peru. Thematically adjacent to SoPA — both serve impoverished Peruvian communities, but ChildFund's scope is broader child sponsorship rather than medical missions.

Direct peers

• Esperança: Phoenix-based nonprofit that sends volunteer medical teams to Latin America, including Peru. Closely comparable to SoPA in target geography (Andean/South American communities) and volunteer-medical-mission delivery model.
• MAP International: Global Christian health organization providing medicines and volunteer medical teams to communities in need. Comparable to SoPA in mobilizing volunteer medical professionals for short humanitarian deployments in developing regions.
• Faith in Practice: Nonprofit organizing short-term volunteer medical missions to Guatemala. Comparable to SoPA in deploying volunteer surgical and medical teams on episodic mission trips to impoverished Latin American communities.
• Medical Teams International: Faith-based nonprofit that mobilizes volunteer dental and medical professionals for short-term mission trips to underserved communities. Highly comparable to SoPA's model of deploying volunteer doctors and dentists on periodic campaigns abroad.

Market position

Strengths5 records

Weaknesses5 records

Competitive moat4 records

Key risks6 records

Key highlights6 records

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Profiles2 records

Subsidiaries1 record

Funding overview

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M&A

Investments

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