Past Trips
Cambodia 2011
Cambodia/Thailand Border - Poipet
Serving again with Rose Martinez of Mercy Ministries Foundation, we will be setting up medical clinics in some of the poorest areas both in the city of Poipet and the surrounding areas. The Cambodian people have suffered much in past wars but they some of the warmest people on earth.
Peru 2011
Clinic days in Peru demonstrated what Project Compassion does best: bringing together medical and nonmedical people from different areas, different ages, different backgrounds to unite as one team sharing God´s love in a tangible way to those who are hurting - physically and spiritually. Blessed with excellent facilities, we were shocked to discover that far into rural Peru; the schools had flush toilets - something we have never experienced on other PC trips.
Porterillo was a community unknown to the government until missionaries arrived 5 years ago and advocated for improved community education and facilities. Now the newly erected school is beautifully equipped with desks and chairs, making it so much easier to set up clinic. (Since over 3500 species of orchids are endemic to this area, the school even had a greenhouse with orchids growing to teach the children horticulture.) Although no crowds initially greeted us, by the end of the day, we had seen over 250 patients with many of the usual concerns - worms, draining otitis, low back pain, gastritis, did I mention worms?... and a little Leshmaniasis to remind us that we were doing tropical medicine.
Mexico 2011
Central Mexico – Guanajuato
14 members from the Project Compassion team assembled in Leon from numerous areas of the United States and Mexico for 1 week. Sandra led and coordinated the team members as they offered daily prayer for inspiration and gratitude. We partnered with a medical/dental team from Oaxaca that included Dr. Alberto Zamacona, his wife Laura, and two dentists. Project Compassion’s team from the United States included two nurse practitioners, pharmacy coordination by a registered nurse, and many other talented volunteers who managed vision screening, foot care, dental assistance, triage, health education, and prayer ministry.
The first day we were led to a building still under construction that belonged to the local church we teamed with. The Pastor and congregation feed 65 children once a week at this location, and the building was the beginning of a community center for English classes & sewing lessons. The church’s hope was that Project Compassion’s clinic would help open doors for home-based church services in the “colonia” (small colony or district) 200 people were treated here with free medical and dental services.
Nepal 2010
Oct 29, 2010 eight of the thirteen team members met at Los Angeles airport to start the very long journey to Nepal. Three more would meet us in Hong Kong, and the remaining two in Kathmandu. During a 10 hour layover in Hong Kong we were able to take a ferry to Hong Kong Island, where we walked around, shopped and ate the local food.Arriving late we were greeted by our hosts, Sundar and Sareeta Thapa, missionaries in Nepal. We spent one night in Kathmandu, finished up formalities with the local authorities the next morning, and then headed to Pokhara, where we would be holding our clinics. What should have been a 6 hour bus trip on a steep, winding, narrow road turned into an exhausting 10 hour drive. The road was jammed with buses and trucks, and small cars and motorcycles were madly weaving in and out--it was just crazy to watch. It was an experience none of us will soon forget. We finally arrived in Pokhara and settled into our rooms at the Hotel Stupa. It didn't take us long to figure out why we had candles in our rooms, as the electricity went on and off at random.
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