By Peter Rohloff | Medical Director
Dear Friends:
Thanks to the generosity of your donations, we have now been working and seeing patients in the first completed clinic building for several months! This has been such a major boon to our clinical work, as the well-lit and ventilated space allows for much more accurate and comfortable patient assessment in the tropical heat. We finally have reliable electricity and water installed as well, so things are operating at 100% capacity.
In the last few weeks, we also broke ground on the second phase of the construction. As you may remember from my previous project updates, the first phase of the construction finished the major clinical and patient care areas. However, since a lot of what we do in these communities is focused on education of parents and community leaders, we feel like it is important also to have space for classes and other large group activities. Therefore, the second building, which is being constructed right next to the first, will contain an open space suitable for these activities. It will also have a separate attached office for our social workers, which will permit them to safely store records and conduct interviews in private with families.
I am attaching a few photos that show this second phase of the construction getting underway!
As always, thanks for your ongoing support for this project. As a reminder, GlobalGiving is conducting a special Mother's Day campaign from May 1-13. All donations made to this project (or to our other projects, here or here) "in honor of" a loved one during this time will make us eligible for additional funds!
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By Peter Rohloff | Medical Director
By Peter Rohloff | Medical Director
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