The End of a Great Mission Week!

 Thursday - our half day of the trip.  Half day because we have to spend the afternoon tearing down clinics and doing inventory of supplies for next times.  But the first half of the day was work as usual and each area was busy seeing patients, handing out glasses and prescriptions.  

Since we had a half day optical clinic I was only about to see about 24 people for glasses.  But they were all members of the community and it was good to be able to help them. It was a fast paced morning and when we were all done seeing patients, everyone stepped up to help pack up the optical clinic.  Got it done in record time. Which was great because it meant I was able to ride with Pastor and Lorena over to the Tocoa feeding center and visit the kids there.  It was such a great feeling to see the kids from the special needs school get fed a nutritious meal!  The principal of the school, Lizeth has been such a blessing for those kiddos.  She is such an advocate for them.  They do things a little differently at the feeding center and they have two seatings for food. One in the morning for breakfast for the morning kids (they can choose breakfast or lunch) and a lunch seating for the afternoon kiddos or morning kids that didn’t eat breakfast.  They feed around 103 kids a day.  Some from the community too.  The special needs school is an amazing place and I love how much they have integrated children who do not have disabilities into the school.  What a great way to raise kids with empathy and compassion for others!  

After clinics were all cleaned up and put away, everyone returned to the hotel to clean up and rest for a bit.  We then all departed around 6pm for an amazing church service, feeling lots of love from various community members.  There were people there from the schools and community.  It was awesome to see!  

So lots of laughter, tears and hugs tonight as we said our goodbyes.  Tomorrow we hit the road for our 8 hour journey back to San Pedro Sula.  We will spend the night there and then fly home on Saturday.  It’s been a great week!

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One of the moms preparing lunch for the kid in the Tocoa feeding center 

Lana with a couple of kiddos at the school 

Me with Sue 

Lana and Lisa with some community members 

Me with Candida 

kids eating lunch in the Tocoa feeding center

Just a chubby baby!! 

The pantry at the feeding center

Kurt - what are you gonna do wit those water balloons!!

Sun setting on a fantastic mission week 

How can you not love that face!

Pharmacy hard at work 

Lunch or kids

Sweet girl with a new pair of glasses 

All the kids love Michelle 

Shelley & Ann - Ann’s first trip - we hope of many!  Had a great week 

New computer lab being built by the special needs school 

Our school team for the week above and below 







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