JUBILEE HOUSE COMMUNITY

Education: Three newsletters (14,683) including 58% in electronic format with a 40% open rate; one speaking trip of two-and-a-half months in 13 states with 68 in-person events and 2,135 attending with power point presentations; regional / national / international ZOOM meetings; six delegations and nine individual volunteers for 1,489 nights; promoting training and ownership of program by those served; U.S. / Nicaragua monthly health trainings; continued prenatal and New Mothers' support groups; maintained four weekly support groups for at-risk young women and men with 80 participants, and the LBGTQ community; trained medical interns; continued chronic care patient's classes for 100 patients. developed social media educational presentations; hosted 44 cultural and educational events utilizing Casa Ben Linder with 817 participants; hosted weekly lunches for the Nicaraguan solidarity community. Remodeling of CBL space to accommodate larger groups. Support of demonstration aquaponics systems in public schools and communities, carrying out 5 workshops with 59 participants together with the Nicaraguan Fisheries Institute.

Development Ministries - Sustainable Agriculture/Economic Development: participation in international production chain partnerships including direct subscription expansion through Farmer Shares, LLC (4,071 # coffee). Expanded to include a second coffee cooperative. Participating in rural infrastructure improvements including 82 aquaponics systems benefitting 125 people. Support for small business development. Aided organic sesame cooperative in its dissolution process due to external economic factors. Development Ministries - Health: Our full-time radiologist, part-time general physician, family physician, and volunteer doctors saw 2,119 patients. Our family planning program offered free, consistent birth control for 38 women. Our pregnant moms program attended 41 women; breastfeeding program attended 35 women; moms and toddlers program attended 95 women; and the asthma program attended 39 people. Our radiologist performed ultrasound exams on 143 patients with a point-of-care ultrasound machine. Our only paid nurse, with the help of volunteers and 4 interns, did 61 EKGs not to mention other care. Our nurse also did 460 wound care procedures, nebulization treatments, injected medicines, and put in IVs. Our half-time therapist saw 285 clients. Our laboratory completed 1,443 tests in the clinic; also glucose checks, and sent out 225 PAP tests to be read by a pathologist. Our half-time dentist and full-time hygienist saw 1,101 patients at the clinic along with good oral hygiene trainings at the local schools. We took four medical brigades to the remote coffee cooperative El Porvenir. Attended 2,772 patients in their homes using their first aid kits provided by the clinic, and accompanied 75 women for mammograms and six patients for other specialized treatments. Did 578 wound care sessions, gave 415 injections, tested 863 patients for glucose levels and took 1,197 blood pressures. And accompanied both visiting volunteers and our local doctors into 153 homes to treat patients.