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The trip Dec. 2001 was focused on children:
school supplies and children with birth defects. In December
we drove another bus, loaded with medical equipment and school
supplies to Guadelupe la Zorra El Salvador.
Nicaragua: Alejandra came by bus to visit
Guadelupe's water project, with the hope of taking back enough
information to build a similar project for the clinic in Siuna.
She took back seven boxes of supplies we had put aside for
the Casa Materna. A clean water source for the casa materna
is our next project.
The bus arriving in Guadelupe, El Salvador.
The village turned out as the bus lumbered up the dirt road,
over a narrow dike with water on both sides, although the
dike was barely the width of the bus. Lots of prayers were
said! We made it!
We took down about 20 boxes of school supplies.
Here are two school teachers at the clinic with one of the
boxes. They were so happy they had a festiveal to celebrate.
These men are a very dedicated and work for next to nothing.
In Nicaragua, the average salary for a primary school teacher
is $36 per month.
Some of the women of Guadelupe posing
in the clinic with the supplies stacked up behind them.
This girl, 12, had developed a "heel"
on the outer aspect of her foot from walking on her club
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It is my hope to get help for these
children with birth defects. Club feet and hands and cleft
palates are numerous. Without help, their future is bleak. |
Some of my students in a basic first
aid class at the clinic. They also had classes in public
health and at their request, a few classes in English.
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Varicela or chicken pox was rampant.
Here is a baby at the clinic, whose sores had become infected.
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