The Brandt Blog

Our adventure has come to an end. After breakfast we had a group reflection. Each one of us went around the circle and shared a rose, thorn and bud ( favorite, most difficult and something you’d take away) from our trip. I’m not exaggerating when I say there wasn’t a dry eye among us. We […]

Today was super busy. Maddie and I worked in the pharmacy together. It was super fun working side by side. The community that we served was called Victoria. They weren’t as poor as the other communities relatively speaking.

What an awesome day! Neither of us had ever zip lined before so since this whole experience is about going outside our box I signed us both up. There were 25 of us in our group. We did 13 different lines. I will be honest and admit I was quite scared before the first run. […]

Courtesy of my good friend, Rafiq Karimi here’s a picture of our volunteers during a rest-day activity.

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