Getting out of Town

Yesterday was an amazing day. I spent the night at friends Tony & Patricia (from St. Paul originally)Got up at 3:30 am and went with Patricia and her daughter Anna with a group of volunteers from a really cool NGO called Mano a Mano (see link on our blog page). Mano a Mano Bulids ,stocks and opens meidical clinics and schools that are then eventually funded by local communities and mano provides continued training and equipment to the clinics. Our mission was to do the set up of equipment, stocking, and inaugurating of a newly finnished clinic high in the mountains 3and half hours from Cochabamba. An amazing trip throughthe high dry alpine, the lakes were rimmed w/ ice at daybreak and there was heavy frost on the sparse grass. We passed grazing llamas, sheep, horses, and spare homesteads on our climb to over 13,000 feet. The work was fun, the people, wonderfull, and the inauguration rewarding knowing that a staffed clinic offering basic health care , traditional and western medicine, will be available to this region for the first time. I definately had a mountaintop experience I'll try to attach some photos. To learn more about check out http://manoamano.org/

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