Over the past week, we were able to deliver food donated by Pack Away Hunger, sterile gloves and oxygen cannulas to our partner hospital Santa Teresa; medications like acetaminophen, zinc, prenatal vitamins and more, donated by the Brigade and Vitamin Angels, to our three mountain clinics; and install a new vaporizer on the anesthesia machine at Santa Teresa.

“I see you are wearing glasses,” Lora said excitedly. “And your eyes,” she continued with amazement, “your eyes are BLUE!”

As Lora looked up from the operating table into Dr. Sarah Merrill’s face, her elation at being able to see was unmistakable.

Omar commented almost apologetically on his own condition - living with colostomy bags and a catheter for five years since a motorcycle accident that crushed his pelvis - when Dr. Ranjit Pullarkat asked him why he’s here this Monday morning for surgery at Hospital Santa Teresa.

Among the poorest of the poor in Honduras, this patient will probably tell our surgical team, as others like him have told our teams in past years, “I have been praying for you every day - for years.”