Our medical team was little overwhelmed upon arrival - we had open up the last day in Kien Giang to any community members that wanted to come, by 8:00 we had over 300 lined up. This would have probably been fine but they were very eager to be seen and got quite pushy and anxious about being missed. After raising our voices a few times we had to finally just lock the doors at 10:00 and finish seeing as many patients as we could by noon. We saw 275 people total, and then packed up our things to start a new day in new province tomorrow.
Our home team did an amazing job with the two houses we had left -the cement foundation has been completed and columns poured. the brick walls were going up quickly and almost straight ..you can see in the pictures which one our team worked on and which one the locals did :). One of our teams got a little spoiled by a house with some Buddhist nuns - not only giving them a bathroom to use but sharing meals and promising to be pen pals :). The girls that will receive these houses were so excited and even showed off their new bikes that they received the day before!
Our team packed up and left Kien Giang for a 4 hour drive to Dong Thap Province. the road was quite bumpy and we crossed the Mekong River on a ferry boat. We got in a little to late for most - since we had to be up just as early for a 7 a.m. start the next day!
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