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Intern and Volunteer
Doctor Program

The Women’s Program

The Intercultural Health Program

The Daniel Agostino Project

The Grange School Program

Canadian Embassy in Chile Project

International Foundation Project

The British Embassy in Chile’s Project

Revolving Commercialization Fund and Exhibitions

 Foreign Doctors to the Aid of Chol – Chol

The Chol – Chol Foundation, in response to deplorable health conditions in Mapuche communities, has teamed up with two other institutions to provide volunteer physicians in the county of Nueva Imperial.

INPROA (Instituto de Promoción Agraria) and the Chol – Chol Foundation split costs for medical volunteers travel fares. Once here, the Chol – Chol Foundation house the doctors and assist their integration into their hands-on duties the Chol- Chol medical clinic. This clinic, a critical health resource for many rural people, is understaffed and short of funds. The municipality of Nueva Imperial, which runs the clinic, has provided the legal framework to allow the foreign doctors to practice at the clinic and provides a small stipend for their service.

We hope that this program will bear many fruits, and that the doctors enjoy living in the Chol – Chol community. On the 6^th of November, the first physician, Dr. Michael Coomes, arrived, and will be followed in January 2000 by Dr. Janine Young. Both are from the United States.

We would like to thank the Municipality of Nueva Imperial, and INPROA for helping to make this program a reality.

Volunteers

Michael Coomes M.D.	Minnesota, USA	1st Nov. 1999 – 20th Jan. 2000
Janine Young M.D.	California, USA	20th Jan. 2000 – 15th April2000
Yves Terrazas	Mexico	1st March 2000 – 28th March 2000

The Chol-Chol Foundation For Human Development
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