Examination Clinic
Before the Friends of the Congo non-profit was ever established, Fr. Jean was able to obtain donated medical equipment from MedShare. Funds were raised from many avenues to purchase a shipping container and to pay for shipment of the equipment to the Congo to be used for a future clinic. Since there was no building to house the equipment, it has been stored for many years in the school and in the doctor’s home—not always under the best of conditions—until an Examination Clinic could be constructed.
In early 2022, after the completion of the initial well, plans and a budget were developed for a four-phase Examination Clinic. We began to establish a building fund for the first phase of the project but when the well failed, the building funds were redirected to the essential well reconstruction. It was also decided to scale back the Examinations Clinic plans to a simpler and more basic design. Fr. Jean and Fr. Damien went back to the contractors to revise the layout of the clinic and, more importantly, scale back the budget requirements
Current Progress
The new plan called for a simple building costing about $60,000. Funding was completed in the summer of 2025 and the physical building is now complete.
We are now working to collect an additional $30,000 in funding to provide plumbing and solar electricity utilities to make the clinic functional.
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Construction in the Congo is a very manually intensive process as evidenced by these videos sent to us by Fr. Damien, Fr. Jean's cousin..
Here, we see the workers mixing the raw ingredients for the concrete.
The building blocks for the clinic are made by hand, one by one. 9400 blocks are required.
Here you can see workers are digging trenches to lay the foundation for the clinic.
The walls are starting to take shape.
It’s starting to look like a building!
The formed blocks are laid out for curing to get ready for construction of the clinic.
The foundation being formed.
The outline of the building is taking form.
Waiting for a roof.