Although we have a few team members who stayed around in Burundi past our scheduled return to take care of a few remaining administrative tasks; the majority of our team returned to the US last Thursday around 2:30 pm. For those of you who are curious, our route went like this and the total travel [...]

The Lord blessed us on Monday; we actually were able to head back to Bubanza and open up the clinic one last time. Two of our student volunteers / interpreters are actually from Bujumbura; so they were able find other interpreters for us from among their friends. Our team leader was able to provide us [...]

The medical team and a few outreach members headed out to a local church to start our Sunday. One of our doctors had shared the moving story of how he became a Christian there; so when we arrived the pastor of the church acknowledged our group and provided us with translators. We participated in the praise [...]

Bernice was the last patient to whom our doctors tended at the Bubanza clinic. She was literally among the last ten patients we treated.  At the time we had already finished our registration and sent everyone home when one of the students helping us informed us that an emergency case was outside. Our worker at [...]

Although we would like to stay longer because the needs are great; today is the last official day for the Bubanza clinic. Most of the interpreters that have been helping us are Christian students volunteering with a government program to build homes for refugees in Bubanza. The program officially ends today and many of them [...]