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This Giving Tuesday, the Buckeye Clinic in South Sudan continues to serve an ever-growing number of patients. To encourage donations, current and former members of the Board have pooled their individual contributions to match up to $16,000.00 of donations made before the end of the year. The satellite clinic in Mongalla began treating patients two years ago. Today over 1,400 clinic visits occur every month, almost double the number in the first 6 months. 30% of visits are children younger than 5. Children in South Sudan have a 1 in 5 chance of not living to age 5! Patients waiting…

As we come to the close of our second year of operating the Buckeye Satellite Clinic in the camp for Internally Displaced Persons in Mongalla, the number of patients we are serving has grown steadily, and we greatly need your support for 2024. In 2022, our staff served an average of 1,047 patients each month. So far in 2023, the same small team has served 14,389 patients--an average of 1439 each month. This is an increase of 37%. Who do we serve? 40,000 people now live in the IDP camp. 50,000 people are in the neighboring host communities. 1,300 South…

The tents that we originally purchased for our clinic in the camp have been replaced by a wonderful new ward building thanks to your support and a generous grant from the United Methodist Church. At the opening of the new ward building on July 11, 2023, South Sudanese leaders expressed thanks to the Buckeye Clinic and its supporters for the new structure: Luois Garang Apiu, the camp chairman, stated, “Imagine: 41,000 inhabitants of this camp are only relying on this clinic alone." Gabriel Juach, the local civil administrator, said "Today we are opening this ward which is supported by the…