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To expand, reinforce, and support a health brigade that is being implemented in a small way by the Federation of Coffee Growers-Committee of Coffee Growers in Quindio.
They are visiting rural areas that have no hospitals or small clinics to attend to; therefore, providing this type of service becomes essential for well-being, health (including dentistry), and environmental education for ecological balance.
The Committee of Coffee Producers in Quindio has been trying to help these areas to ensure the habitants have the best possible existence to be productive to themselves and the local economy.
The local agents of the Committee of Coffee Producers try to be pro-active in the rural farming areas to supply some sort of revisionary needs as mentioned beforehand. This has proved difficult because of the lack of equipment necessary for doctors to perform their examinations on the elderly, adults and children living in those areas.
We intend to supply the necessary equipment for the doctors, training in health care for the inhabitants, for dentists to perform their examinations and/or procedures, training from fire-fighters on best practices to avoid incendiaries and help the environment ecologically.
The local agents of the Committee of Coffee Producers try to be pro-active in the rural farming areas to supply some sort of revisionary needs as mentioned beforehand. This has proved difficult because of the lack of equipment necessary for doctors to perform their examinations on the elderly, adults and children living in those areas.
We intend to supply the necessary equipment for the doctors, training in health care for the inhabitants, for dentists to perform their examinations and/or procedures, training from fire-fighters on best practices to avoid incendiaries and help the environment ecologically.
Twelve municipalities are in the Department of Quindio, all of which have rural areas remote from the city of Armenia. With the new equipment, the number of people being examined will rise from four hundred to an estimated one thousand two hundred fifty inhabitants who will benefit from these visits.
The National Federation of Coffee Growers in Colombia-The Committee of Coffee Growers in Quindio will continue with the work that they started now that they have the equipment that allows the professionals to do the job properly. A letter of commitment has been supplied.
The community is very involved in all aspects of help provided by the Federation, and together, they are committed to working as a team to achieve a better living standard across the board. They also have tremendous confidence in RI and our club through previously successful G.G.s.
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