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Organization	Nicaragua-Projekt e.V.
Region	Nicaragua
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ProjectLeader	Katrin Hennings

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Our project has trained 14 local health care providers called brigadistas to provide basic health care to campesino families in 11 remote mountain villages. Brigadistas administer first aid and medications from mini-pharmacies called botiquines. Each month, our Nicaraguan doctor visits each village for consultations. Our nurse refills the botiquines and meets with the brigadistas. Each brigadista sees 50-80 patients per month, in 11 villages: in 2019, we had over 13,000 patient visits.

Challenge

Campesinos -- farm workers -- and their families living in remote mountain villages around Ocotal in northern Nicaragua have very limited -- or nonexistent -- access to basic healthcare. Basic health care providers can ease a great deal of suffering.

Long-Term Impact

The families in the 11 villages our project serves now have constant access to a local health care provider without charge. Serious problems can be referred to the project doctor who visits each of the villages once a month and is available for free consultations in Ocotal. The families have access to medications dispensed from the mini-pharmacies free of charge. In 2019, we had over 13,000 patient visits.