ClClíínica Nueva Vida:nica Nueva Vida: Providing Health Care Providing Health Care

to Familiesto Families

A Project of the Center for Development in

Central America

□ I pledge $_____________ monthly towards the

on-going costs of the clinic

□ Enclosed please find $_________________ as a tax-deductible contribution.

Online giving: Makes it easy to give monthly or

occasionally

https://donatenow.networkforgood.org/jhc-cdca or scan here to donate online:

For information about volun-teer opportunities, or if interest-ed in collecting medical equip-ment and/or supplies for the clinic, please contact us:

jhc@jhc-cdca.org

Name:________________________________

Address:______________________________

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Phone/Fax/Email:________________________________

Please mail to:

Center for Development in Central America Jubilee House Community, Inc.

c/o Donita Miller 420 Longhorn Dr, Rock Hill, SC 29732-8886

It costs $800/day to run the clinic.

You can pledge to the on-going ex-penses of the clinic. We do not have enough pledged gifts to pay for operating our clinic but we continue to expand our services and trust that people like you will help, and you do.

You can help us raise funds to equip our third clinic building including a kitchen for nutrition trainings, and to modify existing buildings.

You can come and volunteer. Help us learn more and see patients. We can use PAs, nurses, gynecologists, doctors, dentists, and hygienists, but professionals have to be ap-proved by Ministry of Health, an 8-week docu-mentation approval process (for documentation that must be filled out correctly - we can help).

You can collect medicines and equipment and supplies for the clinic. We are able to give more comprehensive care with these donations. The same documentation approval process applies for donations (see above). See our website for needs:

g http://jhc-cdca.org/projects/health/

medical-care/medical-supply-needs/

http://jhc-cdca.org/projects/health/dental-care/dental-supply-needs/

Jubilee House Community, Inc. Email: jhc@jhc-cdca.org

For More Information: www.jhc-cdca.org

Lastly, we provide eye exams three mornings a week. We provide free donated glasses and low-cost custom-

Through Nicaraguan vol-unteer counselors we also provide part-time thera-py, even after the loss of our long-time counselor, Pat, who died suddenly in December.

Dental care, both preventive as well as restorative, is pro-vided to patients through a full-time staff of dentist, hygienist, and assistant, with help from volunteer dental professionals. More than half of their patients are from feeding centers in Nue-va Vida. Our goal is to

clean and restore the teeth of each child from the feed-ing centers twice a year, and do fluoride treatments on all the children in the preschools.

In 2018 we gave out over $62,500 of donated and purchased medicines & supplies. We continue to treat acute cases, and stabilize and maintain our patients with chronic conditions. We provide free family planning and teach courses on sexual health. We also have ...

Clínica Nueva Vida means New Life Clinic. This clinic was established 20 years ago in re-sponse to a refugee resettlement program after Hurricane Mitch hit Nicaragua and Honduras. The barrio of 12,000 people was named Nueva Vida. It is filled with poor families. Our clin-ic reaches those in the barrio and out-side into the city of Ciudad Sandino and surrounding rural communi-ties. In 2018 Nicaragua experienced political unrest that has left the Ministry of Health finan-cially strapped. Many NGOs left Nicaragua but the CDCA stayed and did not close the clinic during the violence, nor since… but struggles financially to continue to provide these programs and services which include:

We have on staff a Health Promoter who organizes 30 lay health promoters who then provide first aid kits and nebulizers from many of their homes. In 2018 they helped over 6,500 people. They provide education for the community and identify needs that the community wishes to have addressed.

We have support groups for: 1st time pregnant mothers; mothers with infants; mothers with toddlers; preteen / teenage girls (to prevent teen preg-nancy); the LBGT community; boys;

parents with asth-matic children; and patients with chronic condi-tions.

Exams are provided by both Nicara-guan doc-tors and international volunteer medical providers. In addition

We have a pro-gram that reach-es the elderly in their homes. We also have a program where new mothers and their infants are accompa-nied by clinic staff and volun-teer promoters through their pregnancy, birthing classes, and the first year of the child’s life

(weighing, measur-ing, and monitoring the infants). Almost 70% of our pediatrician’s pa-tients are 5 years old or younger. Our medical staff and volunteers provide home visits to the elderly, infants, and patients at risk.

A full-time radiologist is on staff, and provides much needed ultrasounds in Ciudad Sandino, a city

with a popula-tion around 200,000. Our old machine broke and is irreparable, but we hope to get a newer one in 2019. We also provide EKG services.

We continue to provide prenatal care, PAPs, and family planning, even though our ob/gyn resigned due to personal health issues. Our doctors write orders for lab

tests that are examined in our own

Lab tests are done by our part-time technician and by an outside pathologist. After receiving the results, our medical personnel write pre-scriptions, which our pharma-cy fills.

to acute care we provide services to patients with chronic conditions (e.g. hypertension, asthma, diabe-tes, etc.) which involve monthly appointments with doctors, medications, educational meetings and sup-port groups.