The Lily Project

The Lily Project is rated 3 out of 5 in the category health. Read and write reviews about The Lily Project. The Lily Project, a women’s health NGO in Nicaragua, improves the lives of women and girls through a women-centered model of care and development. Lily’s mobile health clinics care for the whole woman - providing cervical cancer screening and treatment, reproductive and sexual health education, trauma counseling, and community building. The Lily Project is Building Leaders. Lily's mobile health team is led by Executive Director Anielka Medina and staffed by young women, all recent graduates of the University of Nicaragua (UNAN). Lily pays these interns to spend a year serving rural communities throughout Nicaragua, and during this time they receive skill-based training, personal coaching and leadership development to empower their future success. We envision a better future for all women in Nicaragua - with our interns leading the way! The Lily Project is Mobile and Modular. Lily deploys 3-person teams that travel to remote villages, equipped with a 'pop-up'​ exam room, folding gynecological table and medical supplies. The clinic requires no electricity and is set up in minutes, typically in a school, church or home. Not only is the clinic designed to make examinations possible in difficult settings, it also offers women privacy and peace of mind during the exam - often her first health care experience. The Lily Project is Simple. In low resource countries, cervical cancer - a slow growing cancer - is prevented with a simple, cost-effective screen and treat procedure endorsed by the World Health Organization (WHO) incorporating VIA (Visual Inspection with Acetic Acid) and cryotherapy. VIA identifies pre-cancerous areas of the cervix by washing with simple distilled vinegar (acetic acid). When swabbed abnormal lesions become white and can be seen by the naked eye or with low magnification and treated immediately with cryotherapy. This overcomes the barriers of PAP and approaches appropriate in developed countries.