Over the past 24 years we have been blessed with an annual visit by a volunteer healthcare team consisting of members from the US, UK, and Mexico. This week, a multinational team composed of GPs, pediatricians, optometrists, and dentists will form a temporary clinic in the small mountain village of Yalahui, Oaxaca. The Orangewood Presbyterian Church of Orlando organises the annual trip in cooperation with Armonia, assessing the local needs of the community and what the group can provide to meet those needs.
We were invited to the village of Yalahui again this year by a former Armonia student who studied with us in Yalalag. Visiting the village will help us form even greater bonds with the local community and provide Irene, one of our resent graduates, an opportunity to give back to her hometown. She is currently in Yalahui with other students getting everything ready and will help host the clinic along with several other members of Armonia. Our clinics will see more than 500 people each day!
This year we will have two clinics in the City of Oaxaca and three in the mountains. A main focus of the team is eye care. This involves allocating thousands of eye glasses to visually impaired residents. Since the team has been provided with a list of requirements, they can offer accurate prescriptions for complicated lenses.
This annual visit (during the first week of September) provides an excellent time for other volunteers to visit Armonia!
