348 people came to Care Circle in June, our fifth month above 300

In June, 348 people received free consultations, diagnosis and treatment at Care Circle in Itire-Surulere, Lagos, a fifth month running above our 300 target and taking the clinic's total since launch to 2,635 patients. Across both Kwanda-funded clinics, that makes 11,195 people cared for between them.

133 of June's patients were finding us for the first time, 38% of all visits, and word about Care Circle keeps spreading further across the area. We saw patients from Itire and other nearby communities, and 64% were women, who usually manage healthcare for the whole family. Malaria was again the most common condition we treated at 33% of visits, with unspecified malaria and hypertensive urgency (dangerously high blood pressure) each adding another 6%. The average patient lives on $5.08 (about £4) per person each month, so a household of four gets by on ₦28,808 (about £16), well below the global poverty line of $2.15 a day. Nurses Benedeth and Sylvia ran the clinic right through the month.

We spent $469 (about £370) on medications, medical supplies and staff salaries, helped along by our community plastic-waste recycling programme, which turned 5lbs of neighbourhood waste into cash for clinic operations and cut down nearby mosquito breeding sites in the process.

Mrs Olajumoke brings her children to Care Circle and told us, "They treat us without collecting anything." That's the whole point of the clinic: free, dependable care for families who have nowhere else to turn.

Nothing went wrong this month, and with first-time visits still climbing we're on our way to 3,000 people cared for since launch.