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Paddle in hand, Brother Dave Antonelli, S.J., first canoed a vessel packed with CMMB-donated medicines and supplies to families on the distant islands of Micronesia in 1973. Thirty-five years later, inter-island travel no longer requires a paddle—thanks to transportation developments—but the healthcare needs of families on these remote islands of Southeast Asia are still great.

Br. Antonelli knows these islands and their people well. After four years of military service in Vietnam, he joined the Peace Corps in Micronesia as a field dispensary medic. During his service, he met Jesuit brothers from the New York Province’s Mission of Micronesia, who currently oversee 160 students at Xavier High School in Chuuk. Br. Antonelli joined the Jesuit efforts and has been serving with them ever since, becoming a Jesuit novice brother in 1993. He is also a licensed physician’s assistant. He describes his title at Chuuk’s Xavier High School as “Infirmarian/Dispensary Worker/Health Educator/P.E. Teacher,” demonstrating the diverse roles he fills at the school and its clinic.

“We have had five outbreaks of dengue fever in the years I have worked here, and the CMMB-donated Tylenol was the best weapon we had to fight the bug,” Br. Antonelli remembers. CMMB has donated over US$300,000 in medicines and supplies to the region in the last eight years. These supplies are disseminated to not only the Xavier High School clinic, but also to three other school clinics on the island of Chuuk that serve students and their families. “I want all the benefactors and staff of CMMB to know how many smiles they put on the faces of people here in Micronesia, who many times have no other source of medical supplies or aid.”

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