Sunday, April 20: Building the Dream
4:00-6:00 pm (admission is $5 for adults and school-age children.; no charge for children age 4 and under)

"Building the Dream" is a unique collaboration between Cumberland Arts, the IU Department of Family Medicine, the ENLACE Foundation and the Carmel High School Performing Arts to raise money to equip examination rooms for a new medical clinic under construction in Taulabe, Honduras. The need for this clinic is urgent: 24,000 people live in the remote mountain villages surrounding Taulabe with no access to regular medical care.

Click here here to learn more about this wonderful opportunity for you to help.

Building The Dream
“Not only is another world possible, she is on her way. On a quiet day, I can hear her breathing.” Arundhati Roy

There is a clinic being built at the base of several mountains.
Looking up the mountainside is a checkerboard of small plots, staggeringly steep, that grow sugarcane, bananas and coffee. The 24,000 people that live in these remote villages scattered throughout the mountain slopes surrounding the central Honduran town of Taulabe are campesinos subsistence farmers. They live a hard scrabble, scratch-it-out, isolated life.
The challenges faced by these communities are many. A major challenge
is access to health care. Imagine being sick, in pain and walking three miles down a steep mountain road then waiting in the blazing sun for a passing bus to take you on a two-hour trip to get medical care. Infant and child mortality soars; adult life expectancy plummets; treatable diseases both routine and more complex go undiagnosed; unnecessary suffering and deaths continue.

But there’s a clinic being built at the base of these mountains.
A clinic that has been long in the making. A clinic envisioned years ago by Honduran-born Indiana University family physician Javier Sevilla Mártir and his friends, Reverend Israel Gonzalez and his wife Dra. Floripe Hernandez de Gonzales. Together these friends dreamed of creating a place of health and healing for those most in need. They dreamed of bringing health care providers from different countries and different disciplines together to learn from each other as well as their patients and to give back. They dreamed that others would hear about this clinic and want to play a part. They dreamed of enough land for a clinic site, dormitory housing, nutrition and gardening education and job retraining.

And there’s a clinic being built at the base of these mountains.
The clinic at the base of these mountains will serve many purposes, not the least of which will be to bring hope to those who have none; to bring care to those who feel forgotten; to bring perspective to those who may have lost theirs. The land is bought. The plans are drawn. The first floor is almost complete. The second floor waits to be started. The dream has taken shape. The partners are coming together. Public Health students map remote villages, work with the elderly, and raised funds to provide every house in the village of Sabanas with a stove to decrease respiratory illness and disease. Medical students set up clinics in one-room school houses that lack water and electricity while the clinic walls continue to rise and the empty exam rooms wait to be furnished.

Help write the final chapter to this story…
There’s a clinic BUILT at the base of these mountains!

To make a donation, call Cumberland First Baptist Church at 317.894.2645