Health Projects in Bolivia

The median income in these villages is less than $2/day, the UN definition of extreme poverty. Consequently, the nurses salaries, medicines, and clinical buildings, land, equipment, and even motorcycles to do home visits in nearby villages all need to be raised through donations. We need to raise approximately $65,000 a year to fund these 5 clinics, including medicines, the salaries for the 5 nurses and one doctor who supervises the project and sees patients with the Mobile Dental Clinic 24 weekends a year. We also need $15,000 a year for mobile dental clinic for dental medicines and supplies, vehicle expenses, repairs and maintenance of the mobile clinic, and salary support for the two dentists and the driver to go out 24 weekends a year. Water projects need $42,000 funds to pay for materials, engineering, and drilling of water wells.

Provide high quality basic health care services to the 5 communities we now serve, and add two new clinics within the next 4 years. This will reduce infant mortality, improve the health and increase the productivity of these communities. It will also reduce urban migration to growing slums around the city which leads to extreme poverty, starvation, and is the breeding ground of radicalism. By providing a sustainable solution to water projects, communities will see a huge improvement in their health, and it too can lead to reversing urban migration.

Reduced infant mortality, reduced deaths from deliveries, improved access to healthcare, and improved health.