Yes, I know I started with day 1 and jumped to day 3...but if you read the post you will see that we actually used up both day 1 and 2 with traveling. It's a long way to travel halfway around the world after all!
Today after breakfast we gather to meet our interpreters, go over team assignments and some other training including a language lesson of basic words before lunch.
Each team (7 teams in all) - include a Seating specialist (a physical or occupational therapist), a mechanic (all of our wonderfully gifted tinkering men), a support person (jack of all trades to help do anything and everything for the team - including reminding the others to eat lunch) and an interpreter, without whom we would be lost.
Tom and I are assigned together with Donna (our seating specialist) and Julianna (our interpreter).
The entire team also has a gatekeeper - the person with an interpreter in charge of checking people in for their appointments, an evangelist with interpreter, and an interpreter to work with volunteer carpenters and seamstress and a floating interpreter to help where ever needed. And of course we would be lost without our in-country liaison, Oksana.
Today after breakfast we gather to meet our interpreters, go over team assignments and some other training including a language lesson of basic words before lunch.
Each team (7 teams in all) - include a Seating specialist (a physical or occupational therapist), a mechanic (all of our wonderfully gifted tinkering men), a support person (jack of all trades to help do anything and everything for the team - including reminding the others to eat lunch) and an interpreter, without whom we would be lost.
Tom and I are assigned together with Donna (our seating specialist) and Julianna (our interpreter).
The entire team also has a gatekeeper - the person with an interpreter in charge of checking people in for their appointments, an evangelist with interpreter, and an interpreter to work with volunteer carpenters and seamstress and a floating interpreter to help where ever needed. And of course we would be lost without our in-country liaison, Oksana.
After lunch we haul what supplies we have (still waiting on baggage not yet arrived) to the site, a rehabilitation center, that we will be working at all week. We will review the site and devise our strategy for where to set up, unwrap and sort all the wheelchairs and get as ready as we can for Monday's appointments.
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