Health clinic computer up and running!, June 24, 2016
Dearest Friends,
Click to see the: Slideshow of the Last 6 Weeks Since You've Been Missing These Emails So Much, Right?
A month or so ago, we put out a feeler to see if there might be a possibility to get a laptop for the "Corazon De Amor" health clinic, a free clinic where Alaina is working in Zone 3. A number of YOU GUYS took this faint idea and made it an overwhelming reality through giving, praying, and being friends. Ya'll were too darn generous, and with the combined efforts of the nurses in the clinic, $5000 was raised for the initial $1500 need! What??? God is so good.
So all of those "extra" funds are earmarked for Corazon De Amor, and the clinic staff is excited to get to improve even more around the clinic with the overarching hope to care for more people more completely and more deeply, with less time flipping through papers and navigating through poorly organized things. So now, the clinic has an Cool Blue HP Pavilion Notebook with Windows 10 and an AMD18-7410 processer with Radeon R5 Graphics (I don't know what that means, but it's blue and it works good). They were also able to get a wireless mouse, a printer with ink, outfit the place with wi-fi, and pick up some folders and organizers. Down the road, they also hope use the extra funds to get some diabetic take-home kits, some less accessible medicines, shelving for medications, filing cabinets, and materials for community education. How cool?
FUN FACT: In 2015-2016, an estimated 2000 different people were seen at Corazon De Amor. It's an estimate cause Alaina's only halfway done transcribing all the files onto the computer.
FUN FACT: In 2015, an estimated 59 people named "Maria" came into Corazon De Amor.
Source: Corazon De Amor Scattered Files Turned Organized, 2016.
The "myth of scarcity," which I and many Guatemalans feel a lot tells us that there's not enough, or that a project is too big to even begin. The "liturgy of abundance" allows us to live in hope that God will provide, in one way or another, for what He wants as we live in His will. Thanks for allowing us to believe in that! Please keep in your prayers that the ministry of this clinic would grow, that they might be able to speak into peoples' lives, empower leaders in the community, care for young mothers and victims of abuse...there's so much. The community education set-up process is slow and complicated, so pray that those doors would open (or that God would open other doors) to engage and empower the surrounding community through the clinic, outside the clinic.
For your perusal, here's a little website/video from the initial funders and founders of Corazon De Amor if you wanna see how it got started a few years back.
http://www.dustinsdream.net/guatemala-medical-clinic.html
Happy Friday everyone,
AJ & Alaina
Click to see the: Slideshow of the Last 6 Weeks Since You've Been Missing These Emails So Much, Right?
A month or so ago, we put out a feeler to see if there might be a possibility to get a laptop for the "Corazon De Amor" health clinic, a free clinic where Alaina is working in Zone 3. A number of YOU GUYS took this faint idea and made it an overwhelming reality through giving, praying, and being friends. Ya'll were too darn generous, and with the combined efforts of the nurses in the clinic, $5000 was raised for the initial $1500 need! What??? God is so good.
So all of those "extra" funds are earmarked for Corazon De Amor, and the clinic staff is excited to get to improve even more around the clinic with the overarching hope to care for more people more completely and more deeply, with less time flipping through papers and navigating through poorly organized things. So now, the clinic has an Cool Blue HP Pavilion Notebook with Windows 10 and an AMD18-7410 processer with Radeon R5 Graphics (I don't know what that means, but it's blue and it works good). They were also able to get a wireless mouse, a printer with ink, outfit the place with wi-fi, and pick up some folders and organizers. Down the road, they also hope use the extra funds to get some diabetic take-home kits, some less accessible medicines, shelving for medications, filing cabinets, and materials for community education. How cool?
FUN FACT: In 2015-2016, an estimated 2000 different people were seen at Corazon De Amor. It's an estimate cause Alaina's only halfway done transcribing all the files onto the computer.
FUN FACT: In 2015, an estimated 59 people named "Maria" came into Corazon De Amor.
Source: Corazon De Amor Scattered Files Turned Organized, 2016.
The "myth of scarcity," which I and many Guatemalans feel a lot tells us that there's not enough, or that a project is too big to even begin. The "liturgy of abundance" allows us to live in hope that God will provide, in one way or another, for what He wants as we live in His will. Thanks for allowing us to believe in that! Please keep in your prayers that the ministry of this clinic would grow, that they might be able to speak into peoples' lives, empower leaders in the community, care for young mothers and victims of abuse...there's so much. The community education set-up process is slow and complicated, so pray that those doors would open (or that God would open other doors) to engage and empower the surrounding community through the clinic, outside the clinic.
For your perusal, here's a little website/video from the initial funders and founders of Corazon De Amor if you wanna see how it got started a few years back.
http://www.dustinsdream.net/guatemala-medical-clinic.html
Happy Friday everyone,
AJ & Alaina