We were able to join the dentists outside of the clinic. We drove about 20 min away in the back of a truck. The ride was fun, at first, then it got bumpy....
We worked out of a very small one room school. The set up was a squeeze but doable.
Here are some school pics:
Today the dentists (and us) were surprised to see that a lot of kids did not need any work at all...or if they did it was a tooth they would lose soon. This is amazing. I pray God continues to watch over their mouths. We were pretty remote so this came as a shock. Most of the time the teeth are pretty bad. For me being in Public Health I love to see this improvement. Dental health is crucial to keeping the body healthy. The docs pulled about 100 teeth in all. I've worked on some days where that number is tripled.
So....since there was not a ton of work to do we put florid treatment on everyone and sent them home with books.
After working in the mountains it was time to go back to the grocery store. When we adopted La Paz orphanage this year we had planned on purchasing items (which we did) for their kitchen and give the Sister the cash to go buy groceries. Well...upon arrival we found out that going to the grocery store was a ton of work for her. So with the help of Sonrisas (dental team) we were able to double the money MRC had for groceries and find a ride to the store.
So I went and bought eggs, pasta, rice, beans, corn meal, flour, sugar, salt, powered milk, cereal, cooking oil, pasta sauce, laundry soap, and some other items that I wasn't sure what to do with but are necessary to make tortillas.
All of the groceries will be delivered with the books later in the week.
I don't have any pictures of the store...sorry....was too busy trying to calculate the conversions in my head!
More later today!
-Marie
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