Trinity Lutheran Church Feb 7-15, 2009

16 volunteers from Trinity Lutheran Church volunteered their time to do VBS and construction for the week. This was the first time this church had done a trip with HIM and they seemed to have had a great time interacting with the people and especially children of Guatemala. Though a small group, they were mighty. During the week they built a playgroud at Maria's daycare, varnished tables and built a wall at El Arco daycare, started the foundation for the AA center (a new project HIM is working on) and they leveled the ground in the Orphanage by the nutrition center. They held 3 different VBS meetings - one in Los Palmares, San Antonio, and Altonbran. Along with these many jobs, they also sanded and varnished a playpen at the nutrition center and helped with the weekly feed. It is our hopes that this group comes back! They were a pleasure to work with!

Building a playground at Maria's

...And the kids LOVE it!!

VBS at Los Palmares Elementary School

Preparing the weekly feed at the Nutrition Center

The Team... and Nutrition Center kids!


Sanding the playpen

Leveling the groud of the Orphanage

A hard day's working at the AA site

Cheryl with her "special" shovel

The AA building as it stands now, a few weeks after they started it!

OB/GYN Trip Jan 30 - Feb 7, 2009

With each group, we are able to see just how quickly Hearts in Motion is growing!

With roughly half of the 61 volunteers, this being their first trip, it was a great group that got a lot accomplished. Throughout the week there were surgeries preformed, trainings for the local nurses on how to do cervical screenings and cryos, General medical and OB/GYN clinics in villages up to 3 and a half hours away, and Bomberos trainings. (please see the following post)

*Totals for the week:

General Medical patients seen - 1,621

Cervical Cancer screenings - 239

Cryos - 12

Surgeries - 19

As the numbers show, this group had thier work cut out for them, and they did a fabulous job! Thank you to each and every one of you for your time and energy spent here in Guatemala!

AT THE DUMP

RUSS AT THE HOSPITAL

NUTRITION CENTER

The Cervical Cancer training group

~CLINICS~

Puebo Modelo

setting up the 3 OB rooms...

woman's clinic

general medical clinic

Lampocoy

John & Kara finishing the set up of a water filter for the village.

Jones - and the mission to get there...

Garbage collection at Jones

We made a deal with the children that if they helped pick up trash, they could get a toy!

Another water filter set up!