Clinica de Esperanza-Clinic of Hope

Last summer we ran out of vitamins after only one 8 hour  village clinic. We had enough adult and childrens' vitamins to supply 700 people. That night we sought out vitamins from local Honduras stores. A bottle of 100 vitamins across the street form the airport were $85 USD. We then made the trip to a Honduras wholesale store where they were $45 a bottle USD. You can buy a bottle of premium vitamins here for $13.49/100 a bottle. 

According to the 2015 World Hunger and Poverty Malnutrition refer to the effects on people who do not have enough food. They also state that in developing countries one out of two pregnant woman and about 40% of preschool children are estimated to be anemic.

In many developing countries, iron deficiency anemia is aggravated by worm infections, malaria and other infectious diseases such as HIV and tuberculosis.The major health consequences include poor pregnancy outcome, impaired physical and cognitive development, increased risk of morbidity in children and reduced work productivity in adults. Anemia contributes to 20% of all maternal deaths. (WHO Iron Deficiency Anemia)

The clinic received a large annonymous donation of bottles of vitamins this month.  The 42 foot container was shipped to Honduras with the vitamins, humanitarian aid and medical equipment 3 weeks ago. The InterAmerican Restoration Corporation sponsored the shipment of the container while college students from David Lipscomb College volunteered during their spring break to pack and load the container to ship to Honduras.

We will not run out of vitamins this year! Thank you everyone who pulled this project together in our fight against poor nutrition and health care.