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Ninas showing off their tissue paper flowers. Waiting for flouride treatments for their teeth. Painting flouride on teeth.
Ninas showing off their tissue paper flowers. Waiting for flouride treatments for their teeth. Painting flouride on teeth.
A beautiful beginning to the first day in Las Mercedes. Counting ibuprofen for home health kits. The clinic opens at 11:00 a.m. Making home health kits. Great teamwork! Yoga during the lunch break. The view from Las Mercedes. Filling orders. First day in the clinic.
CLINIC DAYS 1 & 2. Because of the pressures of my very important job at the medical clinic (I'm basically the bouncer) I am getting a little behind in my writing and will combine days one and two. But first, I want to go back to packing. I found out last night Read More...
Monday, Matagalpa. We had a pleasant enough bus ride; It is peak coffee season, and the roads up to town were lined with drying coffee beans. As a bonus, the road to Matagalpa is now paved. Matagalpa itself is a cute little mountain town of about half a million. Very hilly, inter-connected Read More...
10:30 PM CEPAD Compound, Managua, Nicaragua After a relatively uneventful flight, but a very close connection in Houston (see below), and then a 2.5 hour flight down to Managua airport, we have all arrived safe and sound. The night temperature here is very pleasant, and there's a smell of oranges in the Read More...
6:30 AM CEPAD compound: Everyone is up and out of bed and in good spirits with coffee and the smell of breakfast in the air. Presumably rice and beans? Last night, at the airport, we met up with the group from North Carolina, who seem like a bunch of good-natured honest folk. Read More...
Traveling is hard for me, as I tend to procrastinate. Or, more precisely, because I try to get too many things done in too short an amount of time. It's a personality trait that I have consciously tried to combat over the years, but somehow with this particular mission trip, I found myself Read More...
Our Nicaragua mission team leaves on Sat., Feb. 21 to spend a week partnering with the poorest of the poor in a rural Nicaraguan village. Together they will conduct a medical clinic, treating individuals who may have never before in their lives seen a doctor, and will assist with construction projects. Last Read More...
Each Nicaragua mission team is preceded by a small advance team which travels a few days before the full group to deal with the inevitable bureaucracy of the Nicaraguan government. The advance team’s work can prevent delays for the entire team, ensuring that the health professionals and others who are donating their Read More...
As you read this on sunday morning, the nicaraguan mission team is heading back to houston from managua. Whether or not we will make it to kansas city from houston is a different story. But hey, beautiful, sunny and upper 80s all week? We'll hold on to that memory for awhile. The Read More...
Wednesday 26 feb 14 2100cst. gggh&s Each morning begins with a steady stream of children walking past the gggh&s in navy blue pants and white shirts. The school is one block away and we can see its gates from the terrace of the grande ballroom. School is in session — no snow day, Read More...
tuesday, 25 february 14, 2145cst, gringo gardens grande hotel and spa Day two in the village. Construction work is moving along well. Our nicaraguan partners are excellent craftsmen. And they do great work without what “we” would consider the tools necessary to do such a job. Something else they do really well…baseball. Read More...
Preparing home health kits. From Carla: Little 11 year old Darwin runs up to his father asking what to do about the cow struggling to give birth. Dad hold out his hands and explains and boy runs off. Later our team joins the agriculture technician to check on cow. At attention as Read More...
sunday night, 23 february 2014. hotel nueva guinea, nueva guinea nicaragua. (please forgive me in advance: — typos, capitalization and bad spelling are par for the course.) (oh…and check out the twitter feed.) the first 14 of us arrived in nueva guinea late this afternoon. the rest of the group, all but one from north Read More...
82 degrees at 8pm in managua. And, the entire 14 member team arrived safely. Only two members were "almost" arrested by customs, but they managed to talk their way out of it...those in the legal profession often do. as we speak, we are headed to a remote village in nicaragua to help Read More...