title: Creating and developing a non-profit community-outreach healthcare clinic in the developing world: lessons learnt in South Africa.
abstract: Chesed Children's Clinic is a non-profit, non-governmental, volunteer-run primary care paediatric-outreach clinic servicing the severely under-resourced informal settlement of Mzamomhle within South Africa's impoverished Eastern Cape Province. Founded in May 2011 by a group of junior medical professionals and volunteers, the clinic has been successfully operating a weekend clinic on alternate Sundays since September 2011. This paper discusses 10 points of essential consideration for individuals and organisations intent on pursuing similar projects.
authors.affiliation: Balliol College & Nuffield Department of Surgery, Oxford University, Oxford, UK.
authors.forename: D M
authors.initials: DM
authors.lastname: Favara
mesh_terms: D003151:Community Health Centers / Q000458:organization & administration; D003153:Community Health Services / Q000458:organization & administration*; D003159:Community-Institutional Relations; D003906:Developing Countries; D006801:Humans; D009939:Organizations, Nonprofit / Q000458:organization & administration; D016730:Program Development; D015397:Program Evaluation; D013019:South Africa; D014838:Volunteers