Clinica Montaña de Esperanza
How Mountain of Hope Began
In the early 1990’s, members of St. Peter’s in Lake Mary had come to Honduras to help build a church. A woman approached one of the missionaries and said: “our children are sick; they’re dying. They need doctors and medicine”.
That simple statement changed a heart, a mission, and an entire village.
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When they returned to America, they began running ads for medical people to volunteer to travel to a remote village in Honduras to provide medical care to people with no access to healthcare.
First a doctor responded, then a dentist. Eventually about 60 people signed on, and thus began an over 30 year outreach to Quince de Enero. The first week of the mission they treated over 3,000 people, in a village without electricity or running water.
Clearly, 1 week a year was not going to be enough to successfully treat these villagers.
With the help of many, Mountain of Hope Inc. was created, and enough money was raised to return to build a clinic in 2001. The clinic was named Clinica Montaña de Esperanza. The clinic operates 3 days a week, with a doctor, a dentist, and limited support staff. If able, villagers pay about $6 US to be treated and receive prescribed medications.
Funds for salaries, supplies and overhead must be continually raised through contributions. The good news is, in Honduras, this operational healthcare facility operates for a fraction of what it would cost in the United States. For as little as $25/month a family would get to see a doctor and recieve necessary medication
Here’s the challenge: Currently, the total budget for the clinic comes from a handful of people, allowing the clinic to operate 3 days per week. Our goal is to get back to 5 days a week.
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