April Team from Boise

Meet our April Medical/Dental team from Boise! We thoroughly enjoyed the 2 1/2 weeks they were here. We worked with local medical professionals and Promotores de Buena Salud at five different sites in Peru and Bolivia.
We have been so blessed with our teams.....everyone here was positive, flexible, and very hard working.







For example, everyone crammed into our apartment to help prepare all supplies for our clinics up north.
Mary modeling some of the glasses we took....smashing!










All aboard! Terry and Dan on their totora reed boat, enroute to the Uros Island where we worked in their Puesto de Salud alongside two local dentists, a local physician, the puesto's nursing staff, and two of our promotores. We got used to the motion of a floating clinic!

Special delivery to the clinic!

A very important part of our mission is building relationships and trust... with locals, medical professionals, and the churches. Keep talking, Deb.

Our dental team at a school clinic outside of Copacabana, Bolivia. We will return here this week for our Promotores de Buena Salud to implement a "pilot" dental education program in all grade levels. Each child will have their own toothbrush at school and brush twice a day. The man in the middle wearing the dark blue jacket and cap is the director of the Copacabana Hospital. He is also a dentist and worked with us!

The dentists worked hard...and usually elbow to elbow! Please note Sue holding our high-tech lighting system.

We enjoyed having two wonderful husband and wife dental teams:
Terry and Jan Brady.....

and Mike and Sharon Florence!


If looking inside of some of those mouths does not make you brush and floss, nothing will!

Gwen, our diagnosis Queen!

Kent trying to get this little one to breathe. Maybe she hopes to get dental done at the same time.

Brett doing quality control with worming meds.

Yummy!

Meanwhile Patty was doing crowd control outside and teaching them songs!

This is the goal! Assisting with patient data entry and education of the older children was Edwin, a cardiologist from the hospital.