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Here is an update I received:

Daniel,

      A lot has changed in the past few years.  MINSA said they would take over providing health care for the area, but they are understaffed and the doctors keep being reassigned to other areas.  The clinic gave them furniture and things, but had to bring it back as they had to start up again. They now have a limited mobile clinic called La Clinica de Solidaridad. They are still doing the paps and cancer prevention and La Casa Materna is burgeoning.

      There is a large new hospital being built in Mulukukú, 30 beds, specialists, ER.  It is due to open within 3-4 months.  There will still be a need for the co-ops programs, but it will change again.  Patients who see the MINSA doctors have no way of getting medications, whereas the clinic does have a small pharmacy including locally made natural medicines.

      The past two years have been huge in the changes. Dorothy received a major prize that is outlined in the scanned pages of the newsletter [attached, accessible above]. She is 80, and living in Managua and doing well.  She has been asked by the government to organize a midwife training program at the new hospital in Mulukukú.

            —Lois Thetford

Here is the current contact information:

Here is the March, 2010 issue of Corazón de Nicaragua, in JPEG form, so the images are large and you will have to scroll to read them. Click on:

Page 1     Page 2     Page 3

There is a great deal on the old website, but if you are interested in the history of the persecution of Dorothy by the Alemán administration, one of the great stories of the early days of the Cooperative, check out: Dorothy v. Alemán.

By the way, I set up this website in November of 2000 to help spread the word. One wonders if one’s modest actions ever do any good. Well, this one turned out pretty well.

—Daniel ben Avrám
DanielbenAvram.com