Healthcare for Pregnant Women in Nicaragua

Hello, Dear Supporters: Thanks to you and others like you, we continue to move forward and do good work at Clinica Verde! I'd like to share with you some highlights from the first quarter of 2013.   • From January through March of this year, we experienced 3,473 patient visits * Of these patients, 63% came from...

We closed out the year 2012, having provided 13,942 consults at Clinica Verde. It was a great first year, during which we learned a lot. One of the high points for our Board of Directors is the exceptional leadership we have at the clinic. CV Director Dr. Alba Castillo and her dedicated team have exceeded our expectations...

Dear Awesome Supporters: This year, we've served 11,702 patients at Clinica Verde. That's pretty awesome. But while numbers are important to help us plot our progress, they tell only part of the story.  With that in mind, we want to share with you 2 short stories that we think will tell you a lot about Clinica Verde....

Hola, Amigos! Checking in with all of our awesome supporters at Global Giving! We continue to be busy at Clinica Verde, routinely seeing more than 1,000 patients per month. From January 2012 until the end of September 2012, Clinica Verde served 9,752 patients, primarily mothers, women and children.  Having just...

Clinica Verde was designed with a small cafe connected to the clinic, as a place where patients could relax and buy healthy food while offering a small business opportunity for a member of the local community. Cony de Fatima Acevedo Corrales stepped forward to take on the business. However, we quickly realized Cony...

Dear Global Giving Supporters: We've been busy at Clinica Verde these past couple months! Since our opening in January of this year, we've seen over 6,500 patients. Under the able guidance of our Clinic Director Jennifer Owen, the staff has been fine-tuning processes and procedures, constantly looking for ways to improve...

Hola, Awesome Supporters: Just wanted to check in with you to give you an update on our first 3 months of full operations! From January through March, we saw 3,310 patients at Clinica Verde: 2,451 females and 859 males. Our staff has been working hard!  Our Clinic Director, Jennifer Owen, reported this recent story...

Dear Awesome Supporters: In the final weeks of January, our Board of Directors traveled together to Nicaragua for our annual meeting – and to see Clinica Verde open and serving patients. We wish you could have been there with us!Between January 9 and 31, we served 837 patients: 624 women, 213 men, 231 children under...

Dear Awesome Supporters: On Friday, Dec. 16, Clinica Verde held a training day for all of its new employees. I delivered a welcome and congratulation to the team in Nicaragua via Skype at 6:30 a.m. Pacific and our leaders on the ground took over from there – doing an superb job orienting the group to the work...

Dear Global Giving Supporters: Just a quick note to check in with you and let you know how we're progressing! In October we received our permit to operate from the Ministry of Health of Nicaragua and we're moving forward with the formal process of hiring and official clinic opening. The photo features a picture of job...

Dear Clinica Verde Supporters: As we work to raise awareness and support in the U.S., a lot of activity is taking place in Nicaragua. Our dedicated team in Managua and Boaco are working hard to keep our project moving forward. Here are some highlights of our progress:  • The American Nicaraguan Foundation...

Hello, Awesome Supporters: We are happy to report to you that after a long (!!) delay in Nicaragua customs our shipment of medical supplies and equipment has arrived at Clinica Verde and has been inventoried by our Medical Director Dr. Armando Incer. Things look good, and we’re eager to unpack it all and get things...

Dear Excellent Supporters: What do you do with $15 a month? It's a cheese pizza, 4 lattes, 2 movie tickets. You've supported Clinica Verde in the past – now I'd like to ask you to stick with us moving forward as we work to bring health and hope to women and children living in poverty. Sign up to be a recurring donor...

We've been lucky to have Juan Jorge Siman ("Johny") serve as our project manager and all-around man-on-the-ground in Nicaragua. He had a big and challenging job overseeing construction of the clinic, while keeping up with those of us in California who expected him to be there for us 24/7 – even if it interfered with...

Dear Supporters: We just returned from our Annual Meeting of the Board of Directors in Nicaragua. It was a great trip! We got a lot done in committee and were able to celebrate just how far we've come in the past few years. One of the things that makes working on Clinica Verde especially rewarding and meaningful, is the...

Dear Global Giving Supporters: Soon, I'll have some exciting new photos of our completed clinic building. Our construction team in Nicaragua is working hard to do the finishing work and paint the building this week, and our Board of Directors is preparing to meet in Nicaragua for our Annual Meeting. Things are looking...

Dear Supporters: I just want to wish all of you a happy holiday season and say thank you. Thank you for being a compassionate person. Thank you for having a generous spirit. Thank you for being the kind of human being who improves and strengthens the world.  I hope you have a beautiful holiday filled with love,...

Hi, Awesome Supporters: Just wanted to give you a brief update on our construction progress. The roof is on and we're moving towards construction completion by the end of this year. Photos below! As Thanksgiving approaches, I want to thank each of your for your compassion and support. You are so important to the success...

While interning for a U.S. foreign aid program in western Nicaragua this summer, I was able to escape my office cubicle for a day and travel up to the department of Boaco to check out Clinica Verde’s construction site and meet some of its future staff.   I was accompanied by the clinic’s Project...

Hey, Global Giving Supporters: Just checking in to share some of the latest photos of construction. Things continue to move forward, despite record rains in August. Locals shared with me that it had been the rainiest August in 100 years! Nonetheless, the building site looked great, and we're still looking at a completion...

An Interview with Clinica Verde Board Member and Former Minister of Health Margarita Gurdian. Margarita Gurdian was Minister of Health of Nicaragua from 2004-2007. During that time she was in charge of the management of 1076 health units, 25,000 employees and a budget of $182 million US per year. She led the planning...

Hi, Global Giving Supporters: I just got back from a trip to Nicaragua and wanted to share with you this photo of our awesome cistern. The cistern is located at the core of our building and will collect rainwater that we'll use to help support our water needs in the clinic. We're working hard to move the project...

Hey, Global Giving Supporters: Just a brief update to let you know we continue to move forward. Construction continues, and the walls are going up. If all goes according to plan we're still on track to complete construction by November of this year. However, we still need about $30K more to get us to the finish line....

Hi, Global Giving Supporters! Good news. Construction has begun on our land site in Nicaragua. We've hired an excellent project superintendent and feel confident with our Nica team. At this point, we expect a 10-month construction schedule, which takes us to late fall of 2010. Thanks for your continued support and...

Hi, Global Giving Supporters: Just checking in to provide you with an update on our construction. As you can see from the photo, things are moving forward. We've got a great team on the ground in Nicaragua! Our Vice-Chair and Project Development Master, Peter Stanley, is going down on April 10 to meet with the team and...

Dear Awesome Supporters: As the year comes to a close, many of you will be thinking about who to support with your end-of-year donations. We ask that you please consider Clinica Verde. In late January, we plan to begin construction on our environmentally sustainable health clinic for women and children living in...

Hi, Supporters: I'm checking in with you again to provide a quick update of our progress. In November, we held our third annual meeting of the board in Granada, Nicaragua. It was a great, productive trip! I'm attaching a copy here of the Chairman's report that I delivered to the group. A couple of brief updates from...

Hi, People: Just got back from a trip to Nicaragua a week ago. At this stage we're waiting for our Nicaraguan architect to complete his final drawings so we can put the work for the next stages out to bid. Things are looking good, but we need your support more than ever! I'm posting a photo of some friends from the...

Just checking in to share the latest news on the site! As you can see from the photo, the land site is now filled with select material and we're ready to move forward. I'm going to Nicaragua this week to check in on the progress. On the U.S. front, I continue to work hard at raising funds and interest. Please continue...

Hola, Supporters! Just want to share with you the latest view of our construction site. The laborers have completed digging and have been filling the site with select material, dirt that will give solid compacting. Looks good, huh? Thanks for your continued support. You are essential to our progress! Share our work...