In November 2024, I met two ladies in the village of Combiaso in the Dominican Republic. Prior to this week-long trip, I had recently become wound care certified. These two ladies both had a wound on their foot. I had the opportunity to clean up and bandage their wounds that day and educated them on how to further take care of their wounds. Fast forward to January 2025 in the same village, Combiaso. While walking around the village helping Mission of Hope International’s public health nurse take vitals, I saw both of these ladies again and was able to see both of their feet healed. I am grateful that I was given the opportunity to go back to the Dominican Republic and see both sides of the healing. 

There was so much more that the team I was a part of fit into that week in January. We had a couple main focuses during the week. Some of these included assisting with the early intervention feeding program, starting an after school program for school age children, and putting together the beginning stages of a child sponsorship program for the school age children. We spent a lot of time playing with and getting to know the children in the villages of Lagrua and Baraguana. I worked on talking to each of the children and writing down information about their interests, their families, and resources that they may or may not have. Their picture was then taken and we started to put together packets to send to sponsors

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If you want more information on how to sponsor a Haitian child in the Dominican Republic please ask me! I would love to sit down with you or talk over the phone.

Another goal for our team was to bond and have fun! We all had a great time going into the villages, but we also enjoyed some down time going to the beach, hiking up and jumping off waterfalls, playing games, and just having conversation.