Writer’s Notice: This vacation season, I’m reminded how fortunate most of us are – and the way little it takes to alter a life.
The Roberto Clemente Well being Clinic in Nicaragua (a venture our Agora household helped begin 20 years in the past) remains to be the one free 24/7 medical lifeline for hundreds of households. In 2025 alone, it dealt with over 20,000 affected person visits, delivered infants, saved accident victims, and saved youngsters wholesome sufficient to remain in class.
On behalf of all the MTA crew, thanks for any present you possibly can spare this Christmas. You’ll be making “San Roberto” proud.
Julia Guth, the Clinic’s founder and board chair, shares their crucial mission beneath…
– Stephen Prior, Writer
As 2025 ends, right here’s how the yr unfolded at our Roberto Clemente Well being Clinic – and the way your donation performed an enormous half within the lives of many households in Nicaragua. We’re deeply grateful to your beneficiant help.
All through 2025, our mission remained steadfast:
To offer each emergency and preventive healthcare to the area people, whereas working cooperatively with Nicaraguan well being authorities. Regardless of price range pressures, we continued our proud custom of providing 24/7 emergency care.
With the development of recent roads and growing regional exercise, the Clinic supported over 20,000 affected person visits this yr. Our outreach crew additionally sustained month-to-month visits to rural communities, delivering important care to 100–200 sufferers every journey.
Preventive well being efforts stay a cornerstone of our work. By way of our Padrino program, 85 youngsters acquired college provides, checkups, deworming remedies, and specialised medical help. We delivered 2,500 clear water jugs to 22 colleges and municipalities, offered 50 college scholarships, and distributed meals dietary supplements to households in want.
Your help has made tales like these doable:
**Jose** arrived simply half-hour after a motorbike accident with head trauma and extreme accidents. Our crew stabilized him and organized an pressing switch to Rivas.
**Eliam**, age 12, lives with a PCI situation requiring tracheostomy and gastrostomy. The Clinic ensured a pediatric gastroenterologist evaluated him and now receives ongoing checkups, medication, and dietary formulation.
**Yerlin**, age 8, has vital psychomotor impairments. Due to our Padrino program and donors such as you, we organized specialist care, offered a brand new mattress, and proceed to provide dietary dietary supplements and diapers every month.
This yr has additionally examined our resilience. Following the tragic passing of our longtime Operations Director, Gustavo Ibarro, we reorganized native management. We additionally accomplished an sudden however mandated $60,000 facility refurbishment to take care of our authorities certification.
Waiting for 2026, we’ll maintain all crucial packages, broaden employees coaching, and purchase new medical gear, together with upgraded ultrasound gear. We’re additionally starting early planning for an expanded clinic facility – an thrilling step towards assembly future group wants.
Thanks from the underside of our hearts to your continued dedication in 2025. We’re seeing growing prices, so our price range challenges proceed. Any further contribution you may make in 2025 will assist us drastically with our 2026 budgeting, together with planning staffing, medicines, and gear wants for subsequent yr.
Please see beneath for donation choices and contemplate our crew and the group in your finish of yr giving. A bit of bit nonetheless goes a great distance in Nicaragua.
If you happen to plan to go to Nicaragua in 2026, we gladly welcome you for a tour and a dialog about our present and future packages. Medical and non-medical volunteers are additionally welcome, at all times.
A really Pleased and Wholesome Holidays to you,
Julia C. Guth
Chair, The Roberto Clemente Well being Clinic
jguth@nicaclinic.org
YOUR ACTION PLAN
Mail Checks to: Roberto Clemente – Santa Ana Well being Clinic, 105 West Monument Road Baltimore, Maryland 21201 (EIN 71-0926873)
On-line Paypal or Donor Assisted Fund Donation could be made right here.
Contact Christina Olson at colson@nicaclinic.org for any donations of shares or different commodities.
As we’re a 501c3 registered in Maryland, all donations are tax-deductible for these donors that qualify on their tax returns.
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FUN FACT FRIDAY
The Roberto Clemente Well being Clinic in Nicaragua is known as after the Pirates legend who died in a 1972 airplane crash whereas delivering assist to earthquake victims there — a rustic he’d by no means even visited.
He insisted on stepping into individual to make sure the provides reached the folks.
Over 50 years later, the free 24/7 clinic that bears his identify nonetheless saves hundreds of lives yearly, and locals affectionately name him “San Roberto.”