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Planning
It is not enough to have a great team of people. It is critical
that everyone pull together in the same direction; everyone agreeing
on the strategy and tactics needed to reach a common goal. In
this case, access to quality healthcare for everyone in El Valle
de los Chillos. Planning is the process of research, brainstorming,
discussion, and collective decision-making about the routes to
be taken to reach that goal, and is the (dynamic and ever changing)
roadmap for how to get there.
Highlights of current planning for the next
6 months include activities in both Cotagchoa and abroad:
In El Valle de los Chillos, Ecuador, elected
members of the Directiva de Salud and other interested
persons will:
- 1.) Generate continued community awareness and support of
the project.
- 2.) Identify possible temporary and permanent sites for clinic
location(s). Factors such as access to transportation, electricity,
water, and competition with already existing resources are primary
considerations.
- 3.) Identify potential community healthcare workers from
all of the barrios of El Valle de los Chillos, with preference
to respected mothers from the community.
- 4.) Select a name, and obtain legal status as a not-for-profit
healthcare foundation under Ecuadorian law. Identify and utilize
local legal support for the process.
- 5.) Identify and approach local and national businesses with
an interest in supporting community healthcare. Members of the
Directiva will begin with a list of the over sixty businesses
that have pledged their support to the medical
programs of El Hogar de Cristo in Guayaquil, Ecuador. Every
effort will be made to contact these same businesses that have
operations in the Quito area, to inform and educate leaders
of these businesses about the Healthcare Model for El Valle
de los Chillos, and to enlist their support.
- 6.) Coordinate and share information with the heads of all
14 barrios of Cotogchoa. Please download and read our Community
Healthcare Survey here.
- 7.) Collect all vital community information from appropriate
provincial and national authorities including: maps, census
figures, Healthcare Ministry statistics, and photos.
- 8.) Outreach to other interested medical professionals in
Ecuadorian healthcare community, including specialists and dental
care providers.
- 9.) Identify and gather information from local artisans with
talents and products to contribute to fundraising for the project.
- 10.) Continue to develop contacts and support with other successful
community-based healthcare projects in Latin America including
El
Hogar de Cristo in Chile, El
Hogar de Cristo in Guayaquil, Ecuador, and the Americares
clinic in Santiago, de Santa Maria, El Salvador
- 11.) Meet and develop support for project with local government
officials, including Ministry of Health officials responsible
for health care delivery in the area.
- 12.) Identify translation services to convert materials for
project from Spanish into the widely spoken local language,
Quechua.
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In the North
America and Europe, HealtheClinic.org partners and friends will:
- 1.) Brief current supporters including the preparation of
required professional reports from donors including Americares.
- 2.) Develop budgeting, and proposal materials with the goal
of preparing successful grant applications. Identify potential
grant makers. Support from the
Foundation Center will be utilized.
- 3.) Develop a web-based training module for community-healthcare
workers based on the
Hesperian Foundation publications Where There Is No Doctor
and Helping Health Workers Learn in cooperation the European
executive training firm Teleometrics
- 4.) Develop a PowerPoint Presentation in English about the
Healthcare Model for El Valle de los Chillos to share with prospective
partners, and donors. These include meetings of local medical
and dental groups, church and community groups, neighbors, and
friends. Click here
to see this 40-slide PowerPoint Presentation. (2.5mb)
- 5.) Develop a market in North America and Europe for locally
produced products by Ecuadorian artisans to support the Cotogchoa
Model.
- 6.) Organize and publish a data base of community-health issues
based on surveys distributed during June 2006 fact-finding trip
to the Parrochia of Cotogchoa. Please download and read our
Community Healthcare Survey here.
- 7.) Develop marketing material for locally produced products
from Ecuadorian artisans including a web-based store, paper
catalog, and advertising for publications.
- 8.) Develop the HealtheClinic.org website to include all information
pertaining to the Cotogchoa Model in English and Spanish with
Canada’s Farsite
web design
- 9.) Continue to develop contacts and support with other successful
community-based healthcare projects in Latin America including
El
Hogar de Cristo in Chile, El
Hogar de Cristo in Guayaquil, Ecuador, l and the Americares’
clinic in Santiago, de Santa Maria, El Salvador
- 10.) Establish a no interest Microcredit loan program to cover
healthcare costs such as diagnostic testing and transportation
costs.
- 11.) Obtain and ship medications to Ecuador for special needs
patients identified during June 2006 fact-finding trip.
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