Anticipation

Hello!  This is my first time blogging so bare with me :)
   As you know this is my first medical mission trip but it is something I have always wanted to participate in so I am very excited!
   Brief background...I will be traveling with fellow nursing, pharmacy, and engineering students from Ohio Northern University to the Dominican Republic.  We will be staying inland at a guest house with an organization called Solid Rock International. The focus is not to help the people of the Dominican for the week we are there, but to hopefully treat and educate ways for health to be sustained in the future.
   My blogs for this weekend and next week will describe the experiences of traveling, sorting through donations, clinic days, health fair, teach the teacher day, and many other experiences.   My personal project will cover simple, yet effective, first aid education, clean umbilical cord care education, and donating homemade first aid and umbilical cord care kits. I have been able to make over 175 kits thanks to all the donations I received prior to leaving! This is not even the finished project but just an example...

Along with the kits I have received TONS of needed medication, school supplies, toys, hygiene items, and many more donated items thanks to my family and friends!  Thanks to everyone who is helping out!
   The group meets the night before we leave to collect all the donations and organize so that we can fit as much as possible in our checked luggage.  Then, bright and early on Saturday morning we are flying out of Detroit.  The research and collecting is complete! With all the excited antipication and one last night of preparation, we are finally heading to our destination! :)  I feel truly blessed to be involved in this opportunity. We hope to leave a lasting impression from our health promotions.

Godspeed,
Elizabeth

p.s. I am of course praying the internet and electricity works once we are there!  The guesthouse we are staying at is suppose to have internet in a dining area so we will see. Even if I can not get it to work every night or every other night, I will at least be trying!

Shoot me an e-mail with any specific questions!   econradrn@gmail.com
The organization we stay with has a website as well for those interested in seeing any pictures before I am able to post some. Some of their year-round staff have occasional blogs as well.  http://www.solidrockinternational.org/