Last of 170 week Three Feb 8th
As our team of 60 arrives on Feb 8th and 9th we are completing 170 volunteer member weeks in this third week of three weeks. After a team of 60 and a team of 50 serving from the last two weeks. This is massive as we look back to 2004 when our number was 23. ...
Monday Tuesday Wednesday
The Teams had an unbelievable day Monday. The Construction Team headed to a remote three plus hour location to finish a church and took a doctor and nurse to see to the medical needs of the village. This is more remote than we have been in 14 years. The Village Team...
Sunday in Belize
Sunday saw a few going to the border at 5 AM round tripping back at 6:10 AM. We returned to find some doing yoga on the beach and some just getting up to have coffee during the sonrise. A breakfast at 7:30 was a good preparation for the day. Jamin Walsh headed back to...
Saturday Team Reports
After a very chaotic Friday of organizing and building plans for the week, today was the day to test things out in reality as we went to our first village and performed the first surgeries. The General Surgery Team came back smiling after completing their day with...
Feb 1 Audiology, Construction, Endoscopy, Surgery & Clinics Team
The new team with 48 people arrived with a few hours of sleep and enjoyed a meal in the hot humidity of the Belize Airport on Thursday at noon. After a long trip up country and checking in at Tony's we enjoyed dinner by the Caribbean Bay. The General...
Day 4 and 5 for January Team
On Monday the teams headed to construction to work on the church, and surgery to perform more surgeries and to the villages of Yo Creek and August Pine Ridge. As we begin Tuesday we stopped to dedicate and celebrate the work the construction team has been doing. Our...
Day 3 for January Team
It continues to rain here on Day 4, but Day 3 was Sunday and we had a little break from the rain. Five of us headed to the border of Mexico on five bikes we keep in Belize. Nothing fancy, just single speed wide wheels, but that means it takes an hour and a half to go...
Day 2 Saturday January 27th
Arriving Thursday and organizing Friday, now we are into Saturday, day two when the four days of four villages and four days of four surgery days begin. We begin all days with 6:30 breakfast and a devotional message with live guitar song by the amazing Alexis from...
Day 1 Organizing for January 25th Team
We had a very busy day counting medicines and splitting into two surgery teams and two village teams to see patients who were potential surgery candidates at both Norther Regional Hospital in Orange Walk Town and Corozal Hospital in Corozal. The surgery schedule...
Arrived in Belize
The January 25th 2018 Team of volunteers has arrived in Belize. Stay tuned for more posts coming soon!