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Thanks to the generous support of donors like you, CWB is able to operate a Mobile Health Clinic: A mini van, fully stocked with the supplies and materials to run a successful clinic (tables, medical equipment, gloves, masks, medication, etc). The van is necessary to transport our supplies as well as our doctors to wherever we are going that day.

One of our major goals for these clinics is to identify major medical problems and and prevent them from negatively impacting or ending a young life.

Each year, we run clinics for thousands of children throughout Costa Rica, usually in very low income areas called “precarios”. Locations are predetermined through the government social system, CAJA, the Red Cross, and others. 

In addition to the clinics in precarios, The Mobile Health Clinic provides medical and social services to 35 different coast to coast locations including indigenous villages in the remote mountains. 

At one of these visits, in the indigenous area of Guaymi, we cared for 400 indigenous kids, demonstrating our value to these remote communities. At this particular visit, we met a child who needed surgery on his right eye and were able to transport him to a hospital, we helped a boy acquire a new prosthesis, and we assisted another child with obtaining new glasses due to a degenerative malignant myopia. 

The CWB team drove 6 hours over the mountains to get to base camp and the following day, took a 2 hour horseback ride in a thunderstorm to get to the village. The journey was difficult, but worth it: we provided many indigenous children medical treatment for the first time in their lives. 

Our fundraising efforts are directed towards sustaining our Mobile Clinic,  and aggressively expanding our child examination efforts in order to help more children in underserved areas of Costa Rica.