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Rural health clinic in the Mosquitia

Project objective: To equip a rural health clinic in the remote jungle village of Wampusirpi in the Honduran Mosquitia.
Location:
Wampusirpi, Gracias a Dios, Honduras
Participants:
  • Rotary Club of Santa Rosa de Copán
  • Rotary Districts 5360 and 5370, Alberta, Canada
  • Rotary Club of North Sacramento, USA
  • Central American Medical Outreach
  • Honduran Ministry of Health
  • Honduran Air Force
Budget:
Medicine, medical equipment, and medical supplies
$13,347
Generator and electrical supplies
$3,900
Pump, tank, and plumbing supplies
$939
Furniture and office supplies
$2,874
Donations in kind
$12,072
Transportation and communication
$3,168
Total, US$
$36,300
Time of execution:
May 1999 - February 2002
Status:
Successfully completed
Wampusirpi clinic This project is a followup to our club's shipment of emergency food and relief materials to the village of Wampusirpi in the months following Hurricane Mitch's devastation of the region in October 1998. Thanks to the generosity of many donors, some relief funds remained unspent when the village returned to agricultural self sufficiency in May 1999.

Our club thus decided, with the permission of the donors, to use the remaining funds to leave the village better off than it was before the hurricane by equipping a rural health clinic for the village and surrounding countryside. The Honduran Ministry of Health quickly offered to staff the clinic.

Loading the cargo plane The location of the clinic is in the remote jungle of eastern Honduras and the only means of transportation is dugout canoe (an 18 hour journey upriver from the ocean) or bush plane. As a number of the items were too bulky for transport in canoe or bush plane, we were most thankful for the offer of the Honduran Air Force to transport the donations and a team of Rotarians to help install the equipment via military cargo aircraft for only the cost of fuel.

After a number of delays and false starts, we were finally able to deliver the donations to a thankful community in February 2002.

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