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Serving with Love and Compassion
In the last 3 months, Clinica Verde has served 2,628 patient visits, including 350 growth and development consults for children under the age of 5. Thanks to the help of Vitamin Angels, we’ve been...
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IN NICARAGUA, IMPROVING RESPIRATORY HEALTH STARTS AT THE HEARTH
By Bryce Gray, for Medill News Service Inside Felipa Del Carmen’s tin-roof, dirt-floor home in Nicaragua, piles of wood stand at the ready to keep an indoor fire burning. The mother of six says that a...
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Our Maternal Infant Nutrition Program is Off to a Great Start
We’re really excited to share with you the launch of a new program at Clinica Verde – Grupo de Bienestar Materno Infantil (GBMI). This project to promote maternall infant wellbeing is a pilot using...
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Meet Our Splendid Nutritionist
Mary Elizabeth Flores We’re super-excited at Clinica Verde to have launched a 10-week pilot for our Prenatal Nutrition Program, led by our Nutritionist Mary Elizabeth Flores. The program uses...
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Meet Petronila
Petronila, 20, recently discovered she was pregnant. She is now part of Clinica Verde’s Maternal and Infant Group, and visits every Wednesday with other new mothers to learn about care and nutrition...
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Our Teen Leaders Graduate
Equipping the next generation of responsible and healthy leaders This month, our first Teen Club students celebrated their graduation after one year in the program. It was an emotional day for our...
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Reaching rural children
At Clinica Verde, we realize that patients can’t always come to us – sometimes we have to go to them to share our services and help teach those in surrounding communities about positive health...
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Making a Big Difference
Don and Joan Farrar Don and Joan Farrar have watched Clinica Verde grow over the past 8 years from an idea to a reality. A Harvard Ph.D. with over 30 years experience in the areas of economics,...
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Sofia and Soledad: Two Sisters Scholarship Fund
By Megan Thoms Sofia and Soledad in Nicaragua, 1929 Life has a way of coming full circle, with lots of dots that don’t always seem to connect, but when viewed over an extended time have a way...
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Jessica Wheeler: One Volunteer’s Experience
Jessica Wheeler with students of the Clinica Verde TeenSmart Program. One of the great benefits of working at Clinica Verde is that it introduces us to so many generous and wonderful people who are...
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