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To
fulfill our mission, we employ several methods of service. We serve by
offering: Health
Care - Dr. Nancy Rodriguez, Juntos Servimos Medical Director, is
a medical doctor
Over 200
chronically ill patients in the communities we serve who are not
ambulatory will be visited regularly by Dr. Rodriguez in their homes.
Regular visits by volunteer medical doctors, dentists, and nurses have been very helpful in assisting Dr. Rodriguez to provide high quality health care to the citizens of the communities we serve. We have also been able to assist patients with severe medical problems to receive medical help in Mexico and, in some cases, in the United States.
Food/Water/Sanitation –
We provide proper food & water to
the citizens of the communities we serve in several ways. In 2004,
Juntos Servimos volunteers helped build a community kitchen in Derechos
Humanos that feeds hundreds of hungry families each week. The community
kitchen is staffed by volunteers form the local colonias. In 2006, a
water purification system was installed at the community kitchen that
now provides sanitary water to the colonia citizens.
We also
supply basic nourishment requirements to families in each of the areas
we serve who would otherwise go hungry. In 2006, in various forms,
Juntos Servimos will supply over X,000 50 pound bags of rice and beans
to the co Shelter
(Home Building, Home Improvements, Clinics and Other Housing)
– In 2006, our volunteers
will build over 20 homes and provide home improvement services for over
40 home for families in need In 2005, we completed ‘Casa Bugambilia’ in Derechos Humanos which houses not only our medical clinic and community kitchen there but also education classrooms and temporary housing quarters for persons in immediate significant need of shelter.
Education –
In 2005, we responded to an
immediate need in the communities we serve for supplemental education
services for children in the area. Our efforts to date have been focused
on special needs children and tutoring for primary school aged children
with inst To meet this continually growing need in the communities, our immediate plans are to expand the Education program by engaging at least 1-2 fulltime college educated teachers and expanding the number of children served. We also provide monetary assistance to several students in the colonias who would not otherwise be able to attend secondary school for financial reasons.
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....Health
Care
who
is dedicated full time to the mission of Juntos Servimos in Mexico. Dr.
Rodriguez lives in Matamoros and is present in the colonias served by
Juntos Servimos each day. We operate three medical clinics that are
located in the Matamoros colonias including Derechos Humanos, Cinco
Demarco, and Santa Maria. These clinics provide medical and dental
services. We project that this year approximately X,000 medical and
dental consultations will take place at our medical clinics and in homes
and villages in the Matamoros area, in fishing villages southeast of
Matamoros, and in the Mexican state of San Luis Potasi. 
mmunities
we serve in Mexico. As an example, fishing villages located
approximately 45 miles south of Matamoros on the Gulf coast were
devastated in the summer of 2005 by Hurricane Emily. Immediately after
the hurricane, we began making regular deliveries of food
and water to homeless families there and have continued to serve the
citizens of the fishing villages on a weekly basis since then.
in the communities we serve. The funds and labor to build the homes is
supplied by volunteer groups, many of which come from churches of
various denominations, and other groups. Juntos Serv
imos
volunteer groups have also been the primary source of labor and funds
for the construction of our
medical clinics, community kitchen and temporary housing facility.
ruction
performed by our Larry Cox, Juntos Servimos Executive Director, and
volunteers from the United States and from the local community.