Effervescence

Solid infrastructure + passion = Collective Effervescence

(Meaning: gathering together for a common good creates feelings of well-being among volunteers).   

Team members arriving in Guatemala City, January 2014

While our interpreters translated for several thousand patients;

We entertained waiting patients;

 Guatemalan women and children waited for donated care 
(1,600 of them);

And 98 patients received donated surgery;

4285 prescriptions were donated, 183 dental patients were cared for and 9 patients received donated orthotics. 

It was a week filled with good people doing great work for the common good of patients they had no prior relationship with and would most likely never see again. 

Passion + Commitment + professionalism = COTA Volunteers