I want to give a big shout out to two friends and colleagues, Layna Shorter and Keri Vonkalinowksi, who came down here to help me out last month! Also, a big thanks to Beth Calder and Preferred Home Care for their equipment donations – much appreciated! And, thank you Cathleen Daly for organizing our work out in Chimbote and letting us crash at your house!
My volunteers were here a week helping with assistive device modifications at a school, work in the clinic and in Winchinzao, home health visits in Cambio Puente and various educational projects. We did a session with teachers talking about preventing disabilities in children and later a session with Clinica Santa Clara healthcare workers in the theme of prevention of disabilities in adults, with a focus on body mechanics and lifting techniques. It was so great to have other sets of hands, eyes and opinions in patient care and they did a fantastic job in the educational sessions too. And, we even managed to squeeze in some time for the beach, Pisco Sours and archaelogical ruins. :)
My only complaint is that they left so quickly. (I miss you guys! Come back soon!)
Assistive Device modifications..
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Clinic work...
Home health visits in Cambio Puente...
Educational sessions...
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