The Brandt Blog

Today Maddie and Zarrin were in charge of fluoride and hand washing. They brushed the children’s teeth with fluoride and gave a hand washing lesson as well as playing with them. I worked in triage taking blood pressure, temperature, height and weight.

Today we worked at St Domingo clinic. This was a much poorer area then yesterday. In the picture below we are carrying supplies from the bus to the site. The roads are not paved.

The day began loading the buses with the necessary supplies for the two clinics we were servicing. It was incredible day. I worked in the pharmacy. For 8 hours I was on my feet filling prescriptions. The time just flew by. It was amazing to see the people of the community that we served. The […]

Here is the view from the top of the beautiful Basilica. Maddie AND I climbed to the top – yay us!!

Our view from lunch today

After a very long travel day we arrived in Quito at 5am! Bad weather in Houston, fog at Quito’s airport, re-fueling at another airport in Ecuador all contributed to our late arrival. Had a nice breakfast this morning and unpacked our supplies. You can see Madeline in the background chatting it up with some of […]

Maddie and I are ready for our first leg of our journey to Ecuador to help the people of Quito. Looking forward to an amazing week partnering with Timmy Global.

Well, with Anne and Mads gone to Ecuador Hannah and I spent my birthday in Chicago at the Museum of Science and Industry.  After the museum we went for Italian Dinner on Taylor Street at RoSal’s.  Two thumbs up for this charming little family-run ristorante !