Blog Saturday July 13th
Today is the big day that we have been preparing for a while now! It’s the annual medical campaign… Every year, the Hogar organizes a medical campaign in different villages in need of help. It offers different services like general medicine, pediatrics, ophthalmic, dentistry, obstetrics, psychiatric, pharmacy, manicure and haircuts. We get many donations for medicine and basic necessities (food, toilet paper…etc.) to give to all the people.
The campaign was a huge success! I’m pretty sure that the whole village was present that day. We were all assigned to different jobs: in triage, weighing every single person that came, transportation of the material, assisting the pediatricians and doing presentations about tuberculosis. We were all very busy the whole day! In the afternoon, the campaign turned into a sort of fiesta! We started playing games with the millions of kids that were there. They were very adorable but some were a bit too crazy… especially when they all wanted to take picture with us and all jump on our back at the same time! Nevertheless, we were able to get tons of cute pictures with them. We finished the day exhausted but we were glad about how the whole event turned out.
On Saturday night, we tried to find a Karaoke in Chosica (10 minutes away from the Hogar) but after going to 2 places that were completely empty… we concluded that we had to go back to the Rustica in Santa Clara (where we had gone for the 2 past weekends). Aleo (the hermano) really wanted to go back again… This time, there were no electricity problems and we had a blast dancing to latino songs and singing some crazy karaoke songs. What is really funny is that the DJ knew who were (as if we were regulars) and we, los amigos de Canada, won a pitcher of beer during the dance competition! I really don’t know why because we were dancing like chickens in the middle of the professional latinos. Seriously, being a Canadian in Peru rocks!
-Sophie
The medical campaign in the very beginning
Karol with some new friends
Important to know: all these kids (and us) are standing/sitting on a medical examination bed.
Two seconds after this picture was taken, the bed broke in the middle sending all of us tumbling to the ground.
Cute!
Melanie playing with the little kids
All the workers that day
Beautiful landscape
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