Photo Essay Part 3

Finally week 4 of the project.  Then I promise to start posting about what I've been up to since everyone left last week!

Sometimes you have to take a break.  Making friends with a beautiful little girl in the clinic. Her family lives in a Mayan community called Cortuche and the women have formed a collective to make shampoo and soap, which they brought to the clinic.

 

Me translating while Mani insists on speaking English to Auri (Guatemalan cytoprep), who speaks no English.  Speaking louder and slower does not mean she’ll understand you, Mani! 

 

Bag full of saliva samples.  No idea why the NIH wants saliva samples, but I found collecting these way more disgusting than anything else I did during the month, and that’s saying something.

Our beautiful, busy Santa Ana clinic (pretend like the barbed wire fence isn’t there).  This is Sew Hope’s official clinic where we store all of our supplies.

Whole group out to dinner after our last night of clinic.