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Team Tobati Accomplishments
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Team members constructing clinic in Tobati - 2001

Since its first service trip in March 1999, Team Tobatí has:

  • Funded and helped in the construction of the Macchi Education Center, which offers a school as well as computer literacy, English, and college preparation courses to the area's poor youth and also conducts public health campaigns and a type of girl scouts.  The impressive building was officially completed in March 2004.  Since its opening, Team Tobatí has funded and helped administer the center and the institute's school, which currently serves over 950 poor students;
  • Allowed hundreds of high school and college students, faculty, and staff to participate in community service projects in Paraguay, such as helping with the construction of the Macchi Education Center, El Centro de Salud, and classrooms, building sidewalks and fences, and working in factories and clearing fields;
  • Funded and helped in the construction of five separate construction projects at El Centro de Salud, Tobatí's public medical clinic, which have more than quadrupled its size due to Team Tobatí;
  • Funded and helped construct over 26 classrooms at rural elementary schools throughout the poor rural villages of the Tobatí district.
  • Funded and helped construct two children's parks in central Tobatí as well as several athletic fields throughout the district.
  • Helped in the construction of a large athletic complex, which will offer several soccer fields and basketball courts for the use of the district's poor.
  • Brought over 40 U.S. medical doctors to Tobatí to perform free clinics for the poor of the area.
  • Transported donated medical equipment to the clinic, including an x-ray machine, an ultrasound machine and a sterilizer;
  • Given over 10 recent college graduates the opportunity to live in Tobati for a year and serve as a volunteer at the Macchi education center as well as at the district's public clinic.
  • Made possible the first Cesarean section delivery and overnight stays at the clinic;
  • Funded the construction of a new transmitting antenna for a Tobatí radio station that pledged to broadcast weekly medical programs in which doctors educate listeners on different medical and public health issues;
  • Transported over 100 computers, several printers, modems and other equipment to Tobatí's schools, and funded the maintenance of a phone line for internet access;
  • Transported a large quantity of antibiotics, anti-parasite medication, multivitamins, prenatal vitamins and other desperately needed items, including microscopes, slides, bandages, syringes, sutures, gloves, lamps, desks, stretchers, beds, computers, and dentistry equipment;
  • Funded on a continuing basis weekly visits by a pediatrician, a gynecologist and a dentist, who travel to Tobatí from Asuncion, the capital of Paraguay, to treat the poor of the town;
  • Distributed a large quantity of donated clothes, hundreds of soccer balls, and many stuffed animals and toys to poor children in the area;
  • Given over 400 high school students, faculty, and staff the opportunity to feel the satisfaction of directly helping the poor of Tobatí.  These team members have worked in construction projects and have visited over 40 Tobatí schools during their time in Paraguay.


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Team Goals

As stated in the team's mission statement, Team Tobati seeks to strengthen the healthcare and educational infrastructures offered to the poor of Tobati.  The team also seeks to educate U.S. high school students by presenting them with the opportunity to work and interact with a community faced daily with the challenges of poverty and underdevelopment.  Each of the team's accomplishments has helped address these objectives.