Brazil: Build a Hospital
The current Good Shepherd Hospital — a tiny 5,000 square-foot wooden building — must be demolished and rebuilt. The present hospital violates new government health regulations in that it is made of wood, a material conducive to spreading infection.
Our Good Shepherd Hospital in Turvo is the only hospital in the county. It serves a large community that suffers from very high rates of infant mortality, infectious diseases, respiratory illnesses, and complications from malnutrition and contaminated drinking water.
The Marians need funding to build a new facility to comply with the new governmental health laws. The new brick facility will be 22,000-square feet and will include new beds and better equipped rooms for patients. It will provide space for more advanced equipment, such as x-ray and ultrasound scanners, and will allow the Marians to expand their services.
This is truly a community hospital in that it is largely operated by volunteers. Both skilled and non-skilled laborers from the parish are donating their services to the construction project. Even with all of this support, there is not enough state or local funds to support the construction. The Marians have raised approximately one third of the required funds. Please help us finish this project so we can care for these people who desperately need medical care.
Build a Hospital in Turvo, Brazil
Suggested Offering:
$50, $100, $500, $1000.
Gifts of any amount will be gratefully accepted.
Gift Card
If you are making a gift on someone’s behalf, we can send a Gift Card for you. Your Gift Card will read:
A Gift of Mercy has been made in your name to help the Marians of the Immaculate Conception complete construction of The Good Shepherd Hospital in Turvo, Brazil, and help provide quality healthcare to people in this very poor region of Brazil.
Since 1964 the Marians have served the poorest regions of Brazil by teaching both illiterate adults and children, administering sacraments, building catechetical centers and schools, chapels, churches, daycare centers for children and the elderly, clinics and even a hospital. Marians work with the most neglected citizens in the favelas (slums) of Rio de Janeiro and in Parana, one of the poorest regions of the country. We now have more than 80 Marians working to serve Christ, His Church, and His people in Brazil.