About us } Mission of Miracles El Salvador
The Team at Mission of Miracles El Salvador
Written by Administrator Tuesday, 22 June 2010 13:00
In November of 2003 the first official medical mission team of eight, including doctors, nurses, one translator, and one assistant traveled through El Salvador. This first group was organized by Bonnie Adams, RN, the wife of the CNY Diocesan Bishop Skip Adams. The Bishop of El Salvador, Bishop Martin Barahona, stated that the small medical team had provided a tremendous service not only for the
diocese in treating and assessing illness but also in the compassion they had shown for communities that otherwise had felt isolated and forgotten.
Our goal is to help our local partners provide sustainable health care in about 9 remote villages. These tiny communities are suffering from the lasting effects of a civil war from 1980-1992, hurricanes, landslides, floods, and two recent earthquakes in 2001 which left 1/3 of the countries population homeless. These disasters add insult to the on-going poverty they live in day to day. The villagers wait in long lines during the medical campaign with hopefulness that their pain will be reduced. It may be pain from a toothache, a headache, back pain, eye strain, or the pain from fear, depression or post-traumatic stress. We hope to do a small part to reduce their pain and offer hope.
