Thanksgiving Wishes to You – from The Nica Clinic

Dear Friend of the Clinic,

As 2025 ends, here’s how the year unfolded at our Roberto Clemente Health Clinic – and how your donation played a huge part in the lives of many families in Nicaragua. We are deeply grateful for your generous support.

Throughout 2025, our mission remained steadfast:

To provide both emergency and preventive healthcare to the local community, while working cooperatively with Nicaraguan health authorities.

Despite budget pressures, we continued our proud tradition of offering 24/7 emergency care.

With the construction of new roads and increasing regional activity, the Clinic supported over 20,000 patient visits this year. Our outreach team also sustained monthly visits to rural communities, delivering essential care to 100–200 patients each trip.

Preventive health efforts remain a cornerstone of our work. Through our Padrino program, 85 children received school supplies, checkups, deworming treatments, and specialized medical support. We delivered 2,500 clean water jugs to 22 schools and municipalities, provided 50 university scholarships, and distributed food supplements to families in need.

Your support has made stories like these possible:

Jose arrived just 30 minutes after a motorcycle accident with head trauma and severe injuries. Our team stabilized him and arranged an urgent transfer to Rivas.

Eliam, age 12, lives with a PCI condition requiring tracheostomy and gastrostomy. The Clinic ensured a pediatric gastroenterologist evaluated him and now receives ongoing checkups, medicine, and nutritional formulas.

Yerlin, age 8, has significant psychomotor impairments. Thanks to our Padrino program and donors like you, we arranged specialist care, provided a new bed, and continue to supply nutritional supplements and diapers each month.

This year has also tested our resilience. Following the tragic passing of our longtime Operations Director, Gustavo Ibarro, we reorganized local leadership. We also completed an unexpected but mandated $60,000 facility refurbishment to maintain our government certification.

Looking ahead to 2026, we will sustain all critical programs, expand staff training, and acquire new medical equipment, including upgraded ultrasound equipment. We’re also beginning early planning for an expanded clinic facility – an exciting step toward meeting future community needs.

Thank you from the bottom of our hearts for your continued commitment in 2025. We’re seeing increasing costs, so our budget challenges continue. Any additional contribution you can make in 2025 will help us greatly with our 2026 budgeting, including planning staffing, medicines, and equipment needs for next year.

Please see below for donation options and consider our team and the community in your end of year giving. A little bit still goes a long way in Nicaragua.

If you plan to visit Nicaragua in 2026, we gladly welcome you for a tour and a conversation about our current and future programs. Medical and non-medical volunteers are also welcome, always.

A very Happy and Healthy Thanksgiving to you,

Julia C. Guth
Chair, The Roberto Clemente Health Clinic
[email protected]

Donations:

Mail Checks to: Roberto Clemente – Santa Ana Health Clinic, 105 West Monument Street Baltimore, Maryland 21201 (EIN 71-0926873)

Online Paypal or Donor Assisted Fund Donation can be made here.

Contact Christina Olson at [email protected] for any donations of stocks or other commodities.

As we are a 501c3 registered in Maryland, all donations are tax-deductible for those donors that qualify on their tax returns.