Thursday, February 6, 2014

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

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