The Clinic

The clinic is where we spend most of our days and where we see many little miracles. It is on the property of a orphanage located on the north end of Guatemala close to a baseball park and a made to scale relief map of the country of Guatemala. I haven't seen the map up real close but from a distance you can see the ups and downs of all the volcanoes/ mountains that are here.

This is the outside of the clinic which is housed inside the big blue steel doors below.

We have seen many patients here, and we are having fun doing so. Each day is a new experience and a bit of an unknown, but that is part of the intrigue.

Notice the red mustache. We have to paint over the tagging soon.

This is our first patient and she was scared but a real sweetheart!Here are a few more of the children we have seen.  The little boy had already had some teeth which had been removed and he wouldn't let us do too much, so we did some simple things and we all went away happy!

     

Here is the inside of our pretty modern clinic.

The mosaic behind Diana shows Tio Juan who has made this work possible.

Now for a look at some of the grounds of the orphanage. There are very few girls staying here at this time, but the few that are here are very friendly and we see them outside on occasion, usually at lunch.

And outside the clinic we get to travel to some of the other orphanages in the city where we are always met with cheers and hugs. We usually screen the little patients when we travel to their "homes" and schools to determine who is in the most need of treatment.

Sometimes they are Tu-Tu cute!

We will show you more of these great young people as time moves on.