"The C2C concept marries important humanitarian and social goals with the momentum and high level of interest that exists right now for shipping container architecture. The two aspects leverage each other to achieve the mission of the organization."

Andrew Keating, Principal
Stack Design Build

The Model

C2C seeks to improve global access to primary care by extending services to women and children via quick-to-deploy shipping container clinics.

Once retrofitted for use as a health clinic, a shipping container is a durable, standardized, adaptable, secure structure with significant potential for replication and consistent care services.

C2C works with design teams to allow space for a small consultation room, small laboratory, pharmacy, and storage area, dependent on our local partners' needs.

The most common question we field about these clinics is their heat absorption. Rather than let a metal box become a slow cooker beneath a tropical sun, we make sure that our clinics are modified for exceptional ventilation, temperature control, and natural light.

While we are proud of our work to supply partners focused on maternal and child care with well-equipped clinical space, we are even more excited about the partnerships we build to sustain the clinics' staffing and pharmaceutical needs. C2C envisions a healthcare ecosystem in each community we enter, which each organization playing to the strengths of their primary value components. In addition to being more efficient and collaborative, this approach allows C2C to seek scale and replicate the model.