Clinica de Esperanza-Clinic of Hope

The Clinica de Esperanza is a full time medical clinic available year long for people in need of Medical care. The Clinic also wishes to provide healthcare wherever it may be needed. Many opportunities present themselves in Honduras during Torch trips, village medical clinics and just by word of mouth. 

One of the places we were blesssed to become a part of was a disabled childrens home "Rosa Elena Bonilla de Lobo." This place is home to 31 children that are neurologically impaired and disabled. They are not wanted by their parents and are left to be cared for by a government ill equipped to handle the challenge of caring for so many with so little.

We were very impressed. They have only been open 3 months and the place is immaculate, the caregivers are attentive and obviously the kids love them. Many children were experiencing seizures simply because they do not have enough funds to buy their medicine. They also did not have enough food to feed everyone which was provided by our Torch team. 

GlobalGiving donations and the donations of a local pharmacy "The Medicine Shoppe" provided enough medications to last all of the kids 8 months. This will be a great help to the care of these children. The nurse and administrator were present to receive donations and receive instructions.

Also it was my great pleasure to deliver the medications and supplies to meet with a Physical therapist, MD, Nurse, Caregivers, and Administrator for a symposium teaching the members of the staff how to provide therapy for these kids and provide equipement to use during rehabilitation process. 

Serving  Him with You,

Gayle Savage Davidson

The Clinica de Esperanza was founded to take care of chronic as well as acute needs. Our village clinics are not able to care for a patient with a long term illness like Diabetes, Hypertension, Heart Disease, Malnutrition. These needs are met by keeping the clinic open full time to provide free care and medication to the poor in Honduras. 

On August 15, 2014; the clinic began the 8th year of open doors for the poor. Dr. Olga, our full time Honduran physician reported that 29,967 patients have been seen, treated and given medications to date. Thousands were enrolled in our feeding program and their progress was tracked for weight gain and well being. Over the summer Torch teams painted, repaired, assisted with medical care in surrounding villages.

Thanks to the help of our donors we were able to provide $2,546 worth of medications and vitamins for the people. The most amazing part being the vitamins. Next time you go to a store, be thankful you can afford them. They view vitamins as their salvation, as a way to get back some energy to make up for lack of food. They were $95.00 for a bottle of 100 near the airport. We finally found a place that had them for $45.00 a bottle. Imagine how many bottles needed for seeing just the 583 pateints seen in June in village clinics.  We will pack more from the states next year. Thanks for giving part of what was needed to get us thorough this summer.