Friday, May 2, 2008

The time has come.

After months of preparation, the time has arrived. In a few very short hours (why am I still awake?), we'll finally be boarding our planes to Honduras.

The past few weeks have been incredibly busy for Penn Nursing students and faculty. A few weeks ago, we prepared and presented popular education pieces about diarrhea prevention & treatment, stages of childbirth, and HIV prevention (among others). Afterwards, most of us juggled studying for finals in our other classes with packing and preparation for this trip. And speaking of packing...

Thanks to our amazing and incredibly supportive friends, family, and colleagues, we've raised OVER $3,000 with which we were able to buy a vast array of supplies, including some which have been on the clinics "Wish List" for a very long time. (For example: we're bringing them dopplars, which will be used to listen to fetal heart tones. Very cool!)

Along with the tons of supplies we were able to purchase, we also received bags and bags (and in one case, a truck load!) (Yes, Northampton Community College, I'm talkin' to you!) full of supplies from offices, small business owners, and fellow nurses, nursing students, and faculty. (Please see our list to the right, with just SOME of our generous supporters.)

This outpouring of support has been incredibly humbling; we'll surely be thinking of everyone back home as we each struggle to get our two 50-pound suitcases stuffed to the brim with medical supplies onto the plane tomorrow morning.

Thank you all for helping to get our journey off to an incredible start! Please take the rest of the journey with us as we update this blog with the sights and stories from our travels.

Nos vemos en Honduras! See you in Honduras!

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