Health Clinic Project in Magdalenas, Mexico

Cloudforest Initiatives have received a grant which they are directing towards the construction of a small health facility in Magdalenas in Chiapas, Mexico.  Low income and poor sanitary conditions have contributed to widespread malnutrition and pulmonary and intestinal diseases for the local Maya people. The lack of medical facilities in the area results in needless deaths from curable diseases, as most lack the funds to travel in order to receive medical care. The community solicited Cloudforest Initiatives in the hopes of receiving help in their goal to build a local clinic, and Cloudforest Initiatives is doing what it can to contribute to their effort.  

Cloudforest Initiatives are working with a new health organization created by the indigenous people of the highlands region. The clinic that Cloudforest Initiatives is involved in will be one of four new health facilities in the region associated with the larger clinic in Oventik stemming from this new organization’s efforts. Construction began in August.  A delegation of five North Americans helped prepare the land for the construction of the clinic (by turning a hill into flat land), and local volunteers, around twenty a day, have been showing up to complete the task.  The new clinic will be completed before the end of the year.  Once construction is finished, they will be providing free health care to all members of the community, irrespective of  their ethnic or political background, thus ensuring that appropriate medical care can be given to those in need.

Check out the Cloudforest Initiative website here for more information.