Blogs

By Patricia Andersson
Portland, OR, chapter leader

By Patricia Andersson
DFW Travel Director

Just finished dinner with some of the staff from ASRI, and sat with the woman in charge of the Goats for Widows program that Dining for Women supported last fall through Health in Harmony. Tomorrow we each get to present a goat to a widow newly joining the program, giving her a chance at a better life for her and her children. I'm stoked!

By Marilyn Murphy
Thousand Oaks, CA, chapter leader

By Patricia Andersson
Portland, OR, chapter leader

by Tina Yoppolo
Sylvania, OH

by Lynn Broadbent
Fairfax, VA chapter member

by Lynn O'Connell
Alexandria, VA chapter member

Hanoi

By Katlin Smith
Vancouver, WA chapter leader

Arrival and first day in Vietnam 

by Lynn Broadbent
Fairfax Station, Virginia chapter member

By Cherie Ackman
Fontana, WI

By Patricia Spross

By Ruthann Marquis
Portland, OR

By Ruthann Marquis
Portland, OR

An early start to our first day with the PINCC team included a hearty breakfast at 6:30 and filling two vans that headed out of San Salvador to the town of Nejapa.  There we joined 33 doctors and nurses for a day of training.  The nurses and some of the doctors (this week known as students) learned about the disease process of cervical cancer and the visual inspection procedure with acetic acid (AKA common kitchen vinegar) known as VIA.  This is the low cost, very transportable, visual screening that PINCC takes on the road to low-resource countries.

By Patricia Spross

By Patricia Spross

Today we worked at the clinic in San Jacinto, about 45 minutes outside of San Salvador. The doctors saw about 45 women.  Once again, I was given the opportunity to do interviews.   Nearly half of the women I interviewed had experienced some form of sexual abuse.  They never included those experiences when they gave the number of their sex partners.  There were psychologists on hand to counsel these women.