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Reports from the Chaco

Spring 2010

Amaris and a fellow nursing student

Amaris' Report

Amaris Bazeley is back in the Chaco to begin the second year of a three-year health promotion and nursing training at Centro de Salud Yalve Sanga, a small hospital that was founded especially to serve the indigenous people of this area of Paraguay. With thirteen other students of 5 ethnicities, she is learning more than just nursing...
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Renate Mommsen

Renate's Reports

Renate Mommsen is a 23 year old nurse and a member of the Woodcrest Community in Rifton, NY. She worked in the Yalve Sanga hospital from April to December, 2009 and recently returned to the Chaco to continue serving there. More...


Sharon Maas

Sharon's Reports

Sharon Maas completed her last three months of medical school by working at a small hospital in the village of Yalve Sanga, located in the central part of the Paraguayan Chaco, a vast plain of scrubland and palm trees where poisonous snakes, mosquitoes, various other insects and an amazing variety of birds and animals abound. More...

 

 

 


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Sharon y Renate:
Que Dios les bendiga a las dos de ustedes por sus labores de amor entre los chaqueños. Hoy por primera vez he entrado este blog. ¡Qué lindo, de verdad, que unas jovencitas dedicaran a su tiempo entre los necesitados de este mundo. Me parece que el reino de Dios haya llegado a la tierra. :-) Miguel

Yalve Sanga Slideshow