CURRENT CLINICS
BUILD is honored to present the locations and NGO recipients of the five clinics constructed this year. Each NGO will be responsible for staffing and operating each clinic,
CLINIC 03
Destination: Chad
The Gouri Village Project’s mission is to improve the lives of the people of Gouri Village and surrounding communities in Southern Chad by implementing more program initiatives in the areas of education, health and well-being, and economic and social enterprise. This will be the 1st TAMC sent to Gouri Village to serve the Gouri community and approximately 26 neighboring villages in the Peni sub-division. The TAMC will provide the surrounding community with a central location for basic healthcare needs and aspirations and will be a welcome addition to the fragile healthcare infrastructure in the region.
CLINIC 04
Destination: Turkey
Walk With Me and Tying Vines are established partner NGOs that work alongside trusted regional partners to help facilitate medical care, educational, and vocational training programs that directly benefit underserved communities. Walk With Me and Tying Vines currently have 4 TAMCs within their network in Yemen and Jordan. The 5th TAMC will provide medical support for refugees and internally displaced persons displaced in the Antakya or Gaziantep regions in Turkey where the healthcare infrastructure is currently decimated in the aftermath of the earthquake on February 6th, 2023.
2024 Clinics
CLINIC 01
Destination: TBD
Medical Bridges (Houston, Texas) is a grassroots NGO that brings caring people together to challenge healthcare inequities in a sustainable way by procuring and distributing medical equipment and supplies to underserved communities around the world. In addition to two TAMCs already deployed to Ukraine, the 2023 TAMC will provide much needed medical services for refugees displaced due to the Russo-Ukrainian War.
CLINIC 02
Destination: TBD
VOOM Foundation is a private international medical humanitarian organization made up of volunteer doctors, nurses, health workers, and other support professions who seek to provide impartial sustainable healthcare programs to communities in need in Nigeria. This will be the 4th TAMC received by the VOOM Foundation. The 2023 TAMC will be deployed within a 100-mile radius of the Dame Okwuosa Memorial Hospital, which will allow them to expand their reach and provide necessary medical services to the people residing in surrounding villages.
CLINIC 05
Destination: TBD
This first-ever Texas Aggie Veterinary Clinic was made possible by the collaboration between BUILD and Dr. Leslie Easterwood and her students at the Texas A&M School of Veterinary Medicine & Biomedical Sciences. In their Community Service in Veterinary Medicine course, Easterwood’s students completed a semester-long project in which they were tasked with planning and designing a veterinary service project concept from a 40-ft shipping container. Amongst seven competing teams, the project team (Beth Briscoe, Stephanie Cavazos, Alexandria Inbody, Kathryn Herin, Macy Friedrich, and Kaitlyn Turany) that created a mobile veterinary clinic concept for STAR was announced as the winning project. With their 1st Texas Aggie Veterinary Clinic, STAR will provide accessible veterinary care to underserved communities and improve health outcomes for rescued animals in Corpus Christi, Texas.