The Brandt Blog

Like I said before the area is very poor. The community has its own well and is in the process of digging and putting pipes into the ground so all homes can have running water. Since we worked at the fluoride and triage stations they were done before the others. We were given a walking […]

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.

Dear Friends – We managed to see quite a lot of Copenhagen’s city but have been told by several Danes that the rest of the country has quite a lot more to offer. They’d love us to stay, but we must go and as such this is the final installment of the 2013 Brandt travel […]

Hi friends – what better than to have a Danish while in Denmark? Here is lovely Hannah, the American tourist enjoying a cheese and almond. Yum!