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Article: Thinking outside the box ; Elizabeth Sheehan has spent a long time working among the world's poorest people. Now she has an ambitious but simple plan to help the worst off.
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- The Boston Globe (Boston, MA)
- Article date:
- November 3, 2009
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Elizabeth Sheehan was thumbing through Foreign Affairs magazine
last year when an article and photo caught her eye. The story,
headlined "The Global Health Burden," addressed the failure to
deliver rural health care in developing countries. The photo of a
prototype clinic was intriguing. Sheehan peered more closely: Could
it really be one of those ugly metal shipping containers that litter
ports everywhere?
"It was my `aha!' moment," Sheehan says.
That was the birth of Containers2Clinics, a nonprofit that aims
to recycle the metal boxes into clinics serving the poor in the
developing world. Sheehan's first "container-to-clinic" will be on
display at the Institute of Contemporary Art at a ...