The Rainbow Network employs a team of medical doctors and dentists full time in Nicaragua. These dedicated and talented physicians travel from village to village each day seeing patients, dispensing medications, and diagnosing those cases in need of specialized medical attention. This approach enables us to provide high levels of medical care even in remote rural villages.
Medical care by the numbers looks something like this: Rainbow Network’s annual budget for medical care (which includes operating our feeding centers) is $513,720. In 2008. 3,347 patients visited the dentist and 32,667 saw a medical doctor. In 2008, the nutrition centers provided 3,000,000 meals.
The area served by The Rainbow Network is immense. We cover about 2,100 square miles to serve 124 rural villages with total population of about 50,000 people.
But in the end medical care is not about big numbers. It is about people. For those of you who relate better to images and people than you do numbers or data, here’s a very short video clip shot by Rainbow Network board member Charlie Sauer of a young child that recovered from a stroke thanks to the care and guidance of Rainbow Network doctors.
I don’t really think I need to say any more.
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