Dear Friends and Supporters of the Roberto Clemente Clinic, This past year has tested our resolve in ways we never anticipated. Stricter government regulations for health clinics, a global downturn in charitable donations, devastating early rains that flooded and damaged our facility, and most heartbreakingly, the sudden passing of our beloved Operations Director and Pharmacist of...
Hi, I'm Dr. Shawn Borich, the U.S. CEO of the Roberto Clemente Health Clinic. I wanted to join our Chair Julia Guth here for this campaign, to give my own input into how critical it is that we hear from you. This is it - our final day to talk about the urgent life-saving equipment we...
Dear NicaClinic Supporter, Time is running short for our 2025 Father's Day campaign, but the stories keep inspiring us...
Dear NicaClinic Friend, In our last two emails, you met Enmanuel Jarquin and the late Gustavo Ibarra Marin. Today, meet Argenis Obando Sotomayor - a father whose professional expertise as our newest nurse gives him unique insight into exactly why we need new life-saving equipment. Argenis Obando Sotomayor's Story: Argenis is living a season of pure joy. He's...
Dear NicaClinic Supporter, We invite you to meet four more extraordinary fathers whose lives are intertwined with the Roberto Clemente Health Clinic in coastal Nicaragua. Last week, you heard from our beloved late Operations Director and Pharmacist, Gustavo Ibarra Marin, who passed away, leaving three young children. I mentioned in the letter that we were discussing how to...
Gustavo was the Clinic's on-the-ground Chief Protector. Everyone knew and respected Gustavo. He was a commanding gentle-giant strongman, with kind eyes and a beaming smile. It was not a coincidence that the only time our Clinic pharmacy suffered an attempted robbery many years ago was during Gustavo's vacation. They wouldn't have dared mess with him...