By Joe Parker | Executive Director
Dear HOLA donors,
It has been a productive few months for The HOLA Foundation. Through the end of July our OB/GYNs saw over 830 patients. This included 164 patients at the La Ceiba clinic specifically. It is our goal to add an additional OB/GYN by the end of the year, improving our outreach to over 2,000 women annually.
This August we also ran our first volunteer trip for five years. Ten students from the University of Denver travelled to Nicaragua to shadow our physicians, work alongside Nicaraguan veterinarians and perform census work that would help inform the expansion of our OB/GYN program and the development of a new program designed to lower unintended teen pregnancies in the communities we serve. During the week-long trip, our volunteers worked with doctors at nine different clinics and observed surgeons in the operating room at a private clinic in Leon. Our volunteers also assisted on the treatment of 598 animals and surveyed over 200 community members and school children.
We are running our annual fundraiser this September. For those not attending donations can be made via the GlobalGiving Project Page or our website holafoundation.org.
As always, thank you for your time and support.
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