It's All About The Band Aids

     With just 10 days to go, many of you are asking how best to gather items for the trip. Let's focus on those loveable, yet effective little strips we call band aids.  

   The best thing to do is to get as many boxes of these little miracles as you can, and see that I get them before next Friday, January 14th. I intend to dedicate 1 full suitcase (we can only take 2) to items for the village. I already have knitted and crocheted garments - mostly for the kids. I've seen the conditions these folks endure daily, where disease, bacteria, infections, etc. are every day companions. Simple medical devices like the humble band aid, can often mean the difference between a wound that heals quickly, and one that does not - risking an infection (or worse). The maximum weight for each suitcase is 50 lbs. I'd love to fill that thing with band aids for the village, for use at the clinic. Speaking of which, check out their "ambulance; it's killer.

     It was made from spare parts - attached to a roto-tiller, then fused to a lawn tractor. Amazingly ingeneous! As you can see, every little bit we can take over there - helps more than we can ever know.