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Project Results — Medical
 Sometimes the children cry. Sometimes they are too weak or too scared or too surprised to do anything more than lay there and let the good doctor with the gentle hands and warm smile examine them.
Children visiting Food For The Poor’s free clinic in Haiti receive special attention from volunteer pediatrician Dr. Michelle Coles. As she has for the past eight years, Dr. Coles works in the clinic two days a week. One of her patients is little Bianca Jilles. Bianca fell ill shortly after her birth. Her mother, Elsie, 39, prayed for an answer. The local hospital was too expensive, despite the fact that she and her husband sold their furniture and all they had to pay the medical bills.
“I didn’t expect my baby to live. It was a blessing to find this clinic and a solution to her problem. God and Dr. Michelle saved her,” said Elsie.
The clinic is critical to the hundreds of indigent patients who visit each week. Among children, malnutrition is the most common medical ailment Dr. Coles treats.
Medical Facts & Figures
To help care for the sick who could not afford medical care, Food For The Poor shipped 496.5 tractor-trailer loads of medicines and medical supplies in 2007.
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Country
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Tractor-
Trailers
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Jamaica
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154.0
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Guatemala
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78.5
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Haiti
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62.5
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Nicaragua
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62.0
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Honduras
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42.0
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Dominican Republic
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41.5
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El Salvador
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19.5
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Guyana
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12.0
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Grenada
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7.0
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Ecuador
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4.0
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Trinidad
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4.0
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St. Lucia
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3.5
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Antigua
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2.0
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Other
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4.0
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Thanks to your caring compassion, Food For The Poor is able to support clinics, hospitals and nutrition centers throughout the countries we serve. Care is given at little or no cost, saving thousands of lives every day. And Food For The Poor’s clinic in Haiti offers more than free medical care to the poor. The modern medical facility gives caring physicians like Dr. Coles the opportunity to give back to the community and share their blessings.
“I received a lot in my family. My parents helped me, and I promised my mother, ‘I will help children who are needy,’” Dr. Coles said.“This is a promise I plan to keep.”
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