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Lillian TrilloLACA Foundation

Remarkable Women Series

Unitarian Church of Monterrey

September 24, 2011

Wednesday, April 12, 2023

Outline

Early Years

Medical Clinics

School for the Blind

Solar Cookers

Water Projects

Eye Clinics

Literacy Programs


Housing (El Salvadaor & Haiti)

Latrines (Guatemala)

Cooperatives

Nina Carolina Day Care Center

Tarahumara

Students

Panama Program for Empowerment of women

Haiti Projects

LACA’s Mission Statement

LACA is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit public charity dedicated to improving the lives of the rural poor in Latin America


LACA’s Countries


Beauty of the People


Beauty of the Landscape


Early Days


Teaching basic hygiene, anti parasites, anatomy, birth control, Aids prevention

Dental Health


School for the Blind


Solar Cookers


Children gather wood before attending school.

Lil introduces solar cooker in Honduras

Solar Cookers

Maestro en Casa


Eye Clinics


Lions club “Lions in sight” partner

Eye clinics (two) Costco volunteers, and Lions club "Lions in sight" partner

Medical Clinics: Preparation

Staffing [clinic Board member volunteer lead]Ordering of Medications & OTCs [volunteer

pharmacist]Pre-packaging of Medications


Medical Clinics: The Many


LACA Medical Clinics serve the poorest of the poor.

Waiting in line to be seen.

Medical Clinics: The Individual


Clubbed foot child Corrected following surgery

Medical Clinics: The Individual


After heart murmur surgery.Before surgery…

Medical Clinics: Health Education


Health education is an integral part of a LACA medical clinic

Medical Missions Health Education Diabetic specialist nurse and interpreter

Medical Clinics: Health Education


Our triage nurse takes history and gives health advice

Pharmacist give patient instructions

Medical Clinics


Vision: Walt our eye glass specialist.

Our patients

Medical Clinics: Our Volunteers


Water Projects


1st Water project in 1995 Honduras

1ST WATER PROJECT IN PASQUALE, GUAJIQUIRO, HONDURAS MAYOR AWARDS BLUE RIBBON WITH MUSICIANS

2003 DRILLING WELL IN HONDURAS

Water Projects


2002 in Honduras Men of Community do the heavy work of digging

Same community Escanitos Honduras Pipe is being laid

Buenos Aires, Honduras, a very remote area $10,000

Water Projects

Guatemala manual and bicycle operation

Scholarships: Mexico


Scholarships: Guatemala


Scholarships: Honduras


Scholarships: El Salvador


Scholarships: Nicaragua


Scholarships: Panama


Scholarships: Haiti


Cooperatives: Sewing

Cooperative: Bakery

Cooperative: Molino

Cooperatives: Microcredit Loans

Housing: El Salvador

Housing: HaitiBefore

After

El Salvador:Niña Carolina Day Care Center

El Salvador:Niña Carolina Day Care Center (cont’d)

Mexico: The Tarahumara

PPEW (Panama Program for the Empowerment of Women)


Haiti: Senior & Disabled Program

Feeding program

Haiti: Latrines

Haiti: Minor Surgeries

Haiti: Minor Surgeries (cont’d)

Haiti: Hospital Water Project

Disaster Relief: Haiti

Disaster Relief: El Salvador

Disaster Relief: Honduras

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Education

laca medical clinics

medical clinicsvision

disaster relief

sight partnereye clinics

eye clinics lions club

hospital water project

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