Our group focuses on education, medical health (including primary care, OB/GYN, and orthopedic/sports medicine care), dental health, and nutritional programs that help connect local underserved rural Honduran communities with our Hombro a Hombro organization, which is a grassroots, community-based, non-profit NGO. Our aim is to provide health education to these communities ranging from pediatrics to geriatrics and to implement both accessible AND sustainable services with brigades going at least four times per year.
Through Shoulder-To-Shoulder we deliver high quality medical care, public health services, educational seminars, and collaborative planning to the indigent communities of rural Pinares, Intibucá. This population, threatened by cyclical poverty, is extremely underserved with the closest urban city roughly 3 hours away by vehicle. Patients often come to our clinic by foot traveling hours to see us. The majority of these patients do not have the means for transportation or sufficient funds necessary to seek medical care and rely solely on our brigades that come every three to four months.
We see about 100 patients a day serving the isolated community surrounding Pinares, Intibucá. In total, we serve around 500 patients per brigade. Besides providing medical care, we also conduct educational seminars for the local community leaders (comité) so that they can also pass along the knowledge to their community members even when we are not there. This included information regarding food nutrition, women's health, sanitation, and dental care. We ensure continued brigades that go to the same communities at least four times per year to ensure continuity of care and follow-up visits as appropriate for medical problems including hypertension and diabetes amongst many others.
We serve the people of rural Southern Intibucá, Honduras. Our aim was to create, operate and support sustainable and accessible health, nutrition, and education services to the local population. Our total impact spanned about 400 patients total from pediatrics to geriatrics.
