Medical mission in El Horno

We took media out to our humanitarian medical mission in El Horno Wednesday. Our medical team worked out there with a Honduran team Tuesday and Wednesday and saw about 650 patients. The village was only about five minutes away by helicopter, but it would have taken three hours to drive there -- it's up in the mountains. Some people walked more than five hours to see a doctor.

I didn't get many pictures of our people treating patients because I was escorting media and not there to shoot photos. I brought my little personal camera and did shoot a few photos of the people and the village.

This is a couple of boys looking in the window of the school where the doctors were treating some minor ailments.



I saw these three children waiting in front of the school.



This is a Honduran military doctor seeing some patients, and the next is a Honduran dentist extracting a tooth.




The dentists worked out of the village church.



Here's a few shots around El Horno:





And, finally, shots from the inside of the helicopter on the flight back to base:




That's the base outside the window on the photo above.

Chapel Hike with CNN

The end of April (I know, that was more than a month ago and I need to get on the ball), Barbara Starr from CNN came out to do a story on our Chapel Hikes. It's a monthly volunteer event where we pack-in food (purchased completely through donations) to remote villages around the area. Recently because of drought and rising food prices, some of the villages are really having a problem with famine, so this is just a little way for us to temporarily help, while we get to see the countryside and get some extra exercise while we're at it. The hikes are usually about three miles with varied terrain. Below you can see us walking up the side of the hill while Alfredo (CNN cameraman) shoots video of us. I'm the guy in the green University of Alaska, Anchorage Seawolves hat and Michigan State Spartans shirt.




And below was the bridge, we affectionately named the "Indiana Jones Bridge," we crossed during the hike. It rocked and swayed violently, so it really was fun to cross. If you look below you can see the folks who decided try an alternate river-crossing method.




The CNN story on the hike is at http://edition.cnn.com/video/#/video/world/2008/05/01/starr.honduras.food.cnn.

Blogged with the Flock Browser