Category: Newsletters

Even more mothers are coming to our clinic every month as the word gets out about the high quality, no-cost care provided by the Buckeye Clinic.  Our team in South Sudan works incredibly hard to provide this high quality care. They are available night and day. The clinic is well-lit, thanks to solar panels purchased with donations from many of you. Because our midwife often works at night, we have built some staff housing for overnight stays. And we provide nutritious lunches for all our staff, because we know that food is scarce in the camp and they work long…

Many of you know that the original Buckeye Clinic in South Sudan, located in Piol, the home of our founders Bol and Jok, was closed in 2020 because of catastrophic flooding. To meet the urgent needs of the Piol villagers displaced by this disaster, we opened the Buckeye Satellite Clinic in the Mangalla camp for internally displaced people, in September 2021. The site the local leaders gave us for our tented clinic had — ironically — no water. Since our opening, we have been buying barrels of water both for drinking and for handwashing, cleaning, and laundry. It has been…