This is hot, frustrating and tiring work, but I wouldn’t prefer it any other way. Monday morning finds our team heading out to El Poste, an indigenous Tsatchila community about an hour outside of Santo Domingo. As we arrive to our worksite we find ourselves once again facing some difficulties, but we’ve gotten used to things not being ideal so coming up with solutions to unusual dilemmas is now the norm. Of the three permanent structures in the area, one is being used as a school-room leaving us with a four walled structure for the examination rooms and an open aired shelter for the pharmacy and triage station. Ants cover the floor of both structures (I have never seen so many ants in my life) but a push-broom takes care of that. If you’ve never found
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