CI – For all of you who have little impression about Up with People, CI is the acronym for Community Impact. Community Impact is the day where we do volunteer work at different places where help is needed. One day is a very shot amount of time, and sometimes the help we give isn’t as big as we want, but for sure we all changed ourselves every time we do CI!
During our CI Day in Denver, one of the CI facility was Inner City Health Center, a Clinic determined to provide health services for whom can’t afford a health insurance.

They are doing a great job, the place is very clean, organized and the employees seem to be happy to work there. We saw some children playing around before being attended, they were a little afraid of us, because there were so many of us there!

Our job was to make two new gardens and paint some rooms; therefore we split in 3 groups, one for front garden, one for painting and the other for back garden.

This kind of clinic is not very common in Brazil, because we have a huge amount of people who don’t have health insurance. Usually in Brazil, this kind of clinic is related with church or some big company that have a lot of employees living near the clinic.
A big thank you for the Inner City Health Center for having us, and to Newborn Hope who organized the CI for us.

Rafael, Brazil