The Ibi People's Clinic Inc

Ibi People's Clinic (Clinik Ndi Ibi) is a nonprofit medical facility, serving the Ibiasoegbe Village and the surrounding villages. This project stemmed from medical mission trips we made to Ibiasoegbe (Ibi) Village in 2011 and 2014. During these mission trips, we saw that hypertension, diabetes, pediatric malnutrition, arthritis, maternal/infant complications were disturbingly prevalent. We left realizing that there was much more work to be done and many more people to be seen.

We have raised money and completed the construction of the clinic building. We raised money to ship medical supplies and hospital beds for the clinic. We have now hired local health providers to permanently staff the clinic. They will be assisted by volunteer health providers from the U.S and abroad during medical mission trips.Our goal is to establish our brand as a place where people can receive affordable, quality health care.

Testimonials

It is easy, often convenient, to think of inequality as a concept. If we distance ourselves from it, refer to it in theory, then we do not have to truly grapple with it. My trip to Nigeria, however, not only forced me to grapple with inequality but begged that I address it. I have never had to wait 3 days for medical care. I have never had to leave illness untreated. I have never had to depend on the arrival of visitors from another country to ensure that my body was taken care of. And yet, here I was in a village with vibrant, powerful, intelligent people who had to do just that. It seemed bizarre that what made me different was a privilege that I had been born into. I did not choose it. Nor did I work for. My circumstance was bestowed upon me and from it I reap innumerable benefits, benefits I did not earn. And still, I left Ibi realizing that although I did not choose my privilege I can decide what I do with it. I left with a sense of purpose and determination. The onus to better our world belongs to everyone. It is for this reason that the Ibi People's Clinic must be built.

Ariel Eckblad