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Welcome from Tumaco

March 7, 2009 – 9:09 am

From student Benjamin Plotsky:
After a long, tiring day of travel we have arrived in Tumaco, Columbia.
The hotel is outstanding, but I kind of feel guilty with the way people live in the surrounding areas.
We got in at 10, but, and probably because we got up at 5, it felt like 3. We are going to [...]

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Tumaco, Here We Come!

March 7, 2009 – 8:48 am

Months of planning, alliance-building and logistics-navigating come down to one final windfall.  Bill Chester writes:
“I am leaving in 2 hrs for our surgical mission in Tumcao, Colombia.  We have had an unbelievable stroke of luck in partnering with FedEx and obtained 1700Kg of supplies shipped at absolutely no cost, from as far away as Canada [...]

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