A nice quiet weekend waiting for the new arrivals. They have all volunteered before except Maz, so they know their way around. They even invited us downstairs to a roast dinner on their first night. All very sociable. The new volunteers are generally older than last month and fewer of them. So it will be quieter but the work has to be shared between fewer people.
Pumamarca this morning for orientation for the new volunteers.
Ray took to the playground with the whipper snipper.
This afternoon I was on community work.
We took about 50 or 60 women to a nearby gynecological clinic for pap smears and check ups. It was a huge amount of people to organize. Like pinning jelly to the wall. We got through at last and everyone was seen.
This free clinic is run by a doctor from a university in Georgia USA who specialises in ovarian cancer research. Over the years he has used the money left over from his research grants to build the clinic and now the university is also helping to support it from donations. Many student doctors volunteer their time to assist him.
He chose Peru to build his clinic because of the very high rate of ovarian cancer in the area. It has one of the highest incidence in the world. Some of the women from the community in fact have ovarian cancer but most went for the pap smear.
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