Description:

The mission is located in Buenos Aires, Santa Barbara, Honduras. The clinic, (Christ's Love Shared-Community Clinic) offers services which include: general medicine, dentistry, laboratory services, labor and delivery as well as minor surgery. The clinic was constructed in a remote mountain range in the northwest portion of Honduras. This was in response to the overwhelming need of the poor for access to adequate medical services. It serves a highly impoverished population of over 100,000 and is the only complete healthcare facility of its kind. It is our mission to assure that dignified, quality, basic medical attention be accessible to those who have the most limited of economic resources.

Over 800 people receive medical attention on a monthly basis through the efforts of this mission. The patient cost is forty lempiras or $2.05 per visit which includes a physical exam and all medicines needed to treat the illness. If the patient is unable to pay, the exam and medications are provided free of charge, no questions asked.

Clients are educated as to the actual cost of their healthcare and are encouraged to participate in any way they can. This promotes a feeling of ownership and responsibility for the success of the project among the communities served and stresses the importance of eventual self-sufficiency.

Organizational Base: Salina, Kansas