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MISSION
The mission of the Brown/Guachipilincito partnership is to work with the people of Guachipilincito to improve the standard of health and well being in the community through the delivery of health care services and community empowerment.
--Emily Harrison, MD, Clinical Assistant Professor of Medicine and founder of the Brown/Guachipilincito affiliate.
Program
The Brown Family Medicine partnership with Guachipilincito began in 2007 when community members in the town of Concepcion, Honduras, approached Shoulder to Shoulder, a US non-profit founded by family doctors, to deliver health care to the area. The Brown Department of Family Medicine was the first group to join Shoulder to Shoulder in this effort, partnering with the town of Guachipilincito and committing to providing health care, nutrition, family planning and improving the public health of the community.
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Three years later volunteers from the Department of Family Medicine and the Rhode Island medical community have raised $100,000 and constructed a clinic and dormitory in the village, as well as starting a feeding program and spending hundreds of hours providing medical care in Guachipilincito. The new state of the art clinic opened in February of 2011.
Several times a year, residents, medical students, faculty, pharmacists, nurses, and many other volunteers travel to Guachipilincito with Brown Department of Family Medicine and Wingate University School of Pharmacy to work, learn and bring hope to this small village.
