Brigade Time

Hola from El Paraiso!

We are currently in a bus on the way to our second brigade day ! Who knew you could access internet on the road.

We arrived safely to San Pedro Sula on Saturday after a long day of travel and took a 6-7 hour bus ride to the compound we are staying at, Rapaco. It is absolutely beautiful, we are eating well and sleeping little in order to work a lot.

Sunday the Public Health and Water groups went into their respective communities to meet the families they will be working with and to see the former infrastructure/water system. It was a long hike for both groups but they returned enthusiastic to get to work and happy to have met such lovely people and families.

The Medical/Dental group spent Sunday preparing for their week clinics and visiting a nearby orphanage where we played for hours with all the kids!

Yesterday all three groups went out into the communities for their first brigade day. The Medical/Dental team had a very successful first clinic and saw all 300 patients set to come for the day. Highlights of the care we can deliver this year are the pap smears for women, prostate exams for men and fillings in the dental station. We know we are now contributing to both immediate needs and doing some preventative health care which is very encouraging.

The Public Health group worked hard mixing cement and preparing to lay the concrete floors in their two family's home. The Water group also worked hard to digging trenches and the students may have set a record by laying 360m of pipe in a single day- amazing. Both groups will be preparing educational sessions to give in the local schools later this week.

We are off on our second day and look forward to writing again as soon as we can get access to an internet connection. Thank you for patiently watching the blog, we hope everyone is well at home!