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La Paz de Susan: October 2012
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La Paz de Susan. Susan Dewitt, a Sister of St. Joseph of Peace, blogs about living in El Salvador as coordinator for PazSalud, a health volunteer mission. Monday, October 15, 2012. Last week I had two brushes with Salvadoran bureaucracy that left me both crazed and awestruck. And then I went home, asked Alcides to attach my license plates, and tried very hard to stay peaceful. Links to this post. El Salvador political/legal system. Tuesday, October 9, 2012. Links to this post. Labels: El Salvador people.
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La Paz de Susan: Ready to go
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La Paz de Susan. Susan Dewitt, a Sister of St. Joseph of Peace, blogs about living in El Salvador as coordinator for PazSalud, a health volunteer mission. Saturday, April 20, 2013. Hard to believe, but this is the last time I'm going to be responsible for one of our PazSalud missions. I hope to be part of many more, but I'm passing the responsibility, very joyfully, to Darren Streff. Today's the day our team arrives at the airport (at 7:45 pm) and I'm feeling like everything really is ready:. I'm sharing...
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La Paz de Susan: March 2013
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La Paz de Susan. Susan Dewitt, a Sister of St. Joseph of Peace, blogs about living in El Salvador as coordinator for PazSalud, a health volunteer mission. Friday, March 29, 2013. Finally we all came into the church where Jesus, Mary, John and Veronica took their places in front of a purple curtain that hides the altar (it will be dramatically pulled away during the Easter Vigil tomorrow night):. The ubiquitous Salvadoran male language for directing cars, trucks, or stuck floats. Links to this post. I hav...
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La Paz de Susan: One glorious week
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La Paz de Susan. Susan Dewitt, a Sister of St. Joseph of Peace, blogs about living in El Salvador as coordinator for PazSalud, a health volunteer mission. Friday, April 26, 2013. Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom). San Salvador, El Salvador. Living in El Salvador, Central America, from 2009 through 2013, I work with PazSalud, the El Salvador Health Mission of PeaceHealth to bring medical teams to El Salvador and to accompany the people of El Salvador in their lives. View my complete profile. El Salvador ...
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La Paz de Susan: A glorious moment, captured
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La Paz de Susan. Susan Dewitt, a Sister of St. Joseph of Peace, blogs about living in El Salvador as coordinator for PazSalud, a health volunteer mission. Sunday, April 28, 2013. A glorious moment, captured. Here's Marta, one of the two patients who came to us blind, at the moment when the bandage removed and she could see again! But for me, Marta's smile says it all. That's why we were in Santiago de Maria, Usulutan, El Salvador. Photo by Mitch Costin. Labels: El Salvador people. View my complete profile.
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La Paz de Susan: December 2012
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La Paz de Susan. Susan Dewitt, a Sister of St. Joseph of Peace, blogs about living in El Salvador as coordinator for PazSalud, a health volunteer mission. Monday, December 31, 2012. Further down the road we saw a man who'd been collecting the berries and paying the workers:. I imagine that some of those earnings turned into the firecrackers and fireworks that are about to brighten the skies here and terrify all the dogs, but surely some also will become tortillas and beans and rice, food for the new year.
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La Paz de Susan: July 2012
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La Paz de Susan. Susan Dewitt, a Sister of St. Joseph of Peace, blogs about living in El Salvador as coordinator for PazSalud, a health volunteer mission. Saturday, July 28, 2012. Friends in Agua Escondida. Of San Juan Opico). Carmen gave us a tour of her family's farm, which included a charming young goat and a pelibuey. A tribe that's explained as half-sheep, half-goat and prized for meat) and a very fruitful orchard, where we found some little red peppers. Were they hot, we asked? Our next stop was a ...
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La Paz de Susan: Along the road
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La Paz de Susan. Susan Dewitt, a Sister of St. Joseph of Peace, blogs about living in El Salvador as coordinator for PazSalud, a health volunteer mission. Thursday, April 11, 2013. I know this is only a part of the story. I know that people live under great stress here, the stress of not having enough money to pay for education or needed medications, the stress of having some of the little they do have extorted from them, the sheer stress of physical labor in this heat. And yet how beautiful they...Livin...
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La Paz de Susan: February 2013
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La Paz de Susan. Susan Dewitt, a Sister of St. Joseph of Peace, blogs about living in El Salvador as coordinator for PazSalud, a health volunteer mission. Thursday, February 28, 2013. But most of all, we carried away with us bright memories of faces and voices, people who touched our hearts, smiling or howling children, beautiful seniors, hardworking men and women. Here are a few images from the week, bright memories:. Interpreter Rita, Dr. Gulrukh and nurse Julie focused on this beautiful woman. And fin...
