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Around thirty more children at the school were left to take the de-worming treatment, dental hygiene education, and fluoride treatment. Although we weren’t brave enough to ingest the banana flavored treatment, many of us swished the bubble-gum flavored fluoride with the last … Read More

Sunday, May 22, 2011 Day 5 Following a brief, but delicious, breakfast prepared by our wonderful cooks Sandra and Gloria we packed up and headed out to Martha’s Sunday school.  Once there the children greeted us with several well disciplined … Read More

So, the unavailability of the internet has led to a little delay in blog updating. This blog will therefore contain the goings on of the past two days! Day 3 was quite a busy day. It all started with our … Read More

After a quick breakfast, we all loaded into our two vehicles and drove about an hour and a half up a winding mountain road to our first job site, observing the rolling mountains and beautiful scenery as we went. Our … Read More

We arrived in Honduras today after a very pleasant flight from Atlanta even though the team was running on no sleep! We made it through customs in San Pedro Sula pretty quickly (and with all of our luggage)! Then we … Read More

Time to Say “Adios” Today (Friday) was our last full day here. Roxanne, George, and Tommy served 92 children this morning, providing antiparasitic medicine, dental hygiene, and fluoride treatment at the Milpa Arada Elementary school. Our dental team once again … Read More

On the way to the dental clinic about 7:45 a.m. for , we ran into some “Quimistan rush hour” traffic.  Once at the hospital, the dentists maintained their rapid pace today by adding about 20 to the growing list of … Read More

This morning, after getting the dental team delivered to the hospital, two team members, Dane and George, plus Stanley went to the Escuela Republica de Canada in El Pinal  to provide de-worming medication, dental hygiene training, and fluoride treatment to … Read More

This morning, after getting the dental team delivered to the hospital, three team members, Roxanne, Tommy and George, plus our interpreter Stanley, went to the Santa Clara School.  We provided de-worming medication, dental hygiene training, and fluoride treatment to 79 … Read More

I just witnessed a remarkable event. About 65-70 children were fed who would have otherwise gone hungry. And then a true miracle happened. A few clothes had been donated to these children who have nothing. I was really sad because … Read More