I'm leaving early Friday morning for my fifth trip to Guatemala. I'll be down there for 5 weeks and change this time, working with Salud y Paz. For those of you who didn't keep up with me on my 7 week trip back in 2009, Salud y Paz is Spanish for "health and peace". The organization promotes health and peace in the indigenous Mayans of Guatemala by providing (essentially) free healthcare and pre-school education for their children.
This summer, I get to dabble in a little of everything they do. For the first week, I'll be doing construction with FUMC Hurst (my home church) on a new clinic near the Pacific coast of Guatemala. The following three-ish weeks, I'll be working around one of the permanent clinics and the pre-school, doing various things that need to be done. The last week, I'll get to translate for one of the U.S. teams that comes down to host medical and dental clinics in rural villages that would otherwise have no access to healthcare.
Obviously, I'll be doing some other things (travelling and learning to scuba dive included), and plans are always subject to change. Thus, you should definitely keep up with the blog to see what shenanigans I'm up to over the next few weeks!
P.S. I have a Twitter (@ParkerGoes) that I'll be updating just a little more often than this, so you should keep up with that too. And Facebook. I like Facebook too. You should probably just follow me in every way you can. Oh! And read all my old blog posts if you haven't already. You know you don't want to do whatever it is you should be doing right now.
And leave comments somewhere. Its good to feel loved. :D
Have fun on the trip and I'm looking forward to reading about it!
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