Children of the Americas

Surgical, dental and clinical supplies arrive in Guatemala

After arriving in Guatemala, we unload all of our previously packed supplies and dispurse them throughout the clinical areas of the hospitals we are working in. Each item has to be taken to the respective parts of the hospital where the COTA volunteers will be working. Our dentists (below) need their

Our dental team is flexible enough to set up anywhere we can find space for them!

In the OR in Guatemala

These little feet needed help

instruments. The surgeons require the tools of the trade required to perform 120-130 surgeries the week we are in Guatemala. Our clinic doctors use the fewest supplies but see the most patients. The orthotics and prosthetics team has endless patience for fitting little feet, adjusting crutches and supplying vital devices to enable our pediatric patients to walk. 
It takes countless hours, endless emails, limitless energy. But pulling together a COTA team is worth the work for her:

 And for him:

And them: