I left home on May 1st to spend two weeks travelling in the highlands of Guatemala and northwest Nicaragua to visit projects funded by Change for Children and its…
In total, the dental brigade treated 320 patients, pulled 769 teeth, and completed 72 fillings in the 4 communities we visited. Though the smiles with which we were welcomed…
For ten days, The Who gave us a peek into their lives. We certainly felt a part of the communities we visited, yet we certainly had our differences… We,…
Although I do my best to convey my experiences through writing, it is the people that I am fortunate enough to meet that actually tell the story of this…
Sylvio won my heart the first night at Casa Verde when he handed me the guitar, raised his eyebrows expectantly and nodded his chin in my direction. ‘Play something’…
While in Walakitang, we inaugurate the new five-classroom secondary school, in which we held the dental clinic. Prior to secondary school construction here, children had to travel outside the…
From my perch on the narrow edge of a long-river boat traveling down the Rio Coco, en route to the subsistence farming village of Walakitang (the second stop for…
“Have you met my friend?” This was the laboured and sleep-deprived response I received from Krystle when I, having abandoned my hammock sometime in the fives (which was an…
