Because of generous support of donors like you, CWB operates a Mobile Health Clinic. The clinic is a mini van which is stocked with all the supplies and materials for a clinic (gloves, masks, medication, tables, etc). We use it to transport our doctors to wherever we are going that day.
Each year, we have clinics for thousands of children throughout Costa Rica in very low income areas called “precarios”. Locations are predetermined through the government social system, CAJA, the Red Cross, and others.
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.
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 visit to the indigenous area of Guaymi, we cared for 400 indigenous kids, demonstrating our value to these communities. At this visit, we took a child to the hospital for surgery on his right eye, helped a boy with a new prosthesis, and assisted another child with 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 clinic. The journey was difficult, but worth it! That clinic 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.
The Children's Well-Being Foundation has volunteer and student internship opportunities for those studying medical, nursing, public health, education, and other disciplines.
Do you want to improve the health and lives of children in Costa Rica? Practice your Spanish? See one of the most beautiful places in Central America? Join us and work alongside staff and physicians at our medical clinics!
We offer opportunities year-round and we work with each group to tailor a program that works best for the participants. We customize programming and daily activities based on student interest so you have the best experience of your life!
The Children’s Well-Being Foundation is making a significant difference in Costa Rica – we are providing health care to thousands of children who otherwise would have fallen through the cracks of their healthcare system. Join us and make your own impact!
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