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Dear Friends and Family,
In March of last year, Elizabeth and I were blessed to be able to travel to El Salvador as part of a medical mission trip run by Helping Hands Medical Missions.
The mission provides free health care and medications to the needy people we encounter, consistent with Catholic social teaching.
We also provide supplies such as prescription medications, vitamins, over the counter meds, toothbrushes, toothpaste and reading glasses.
In addition to these basics, our mission group has been providing gravity-fed water filters for a few years, and the difference these filters have made cannot be overstated. Many of the folks living in small villages and in the rural countryside have to obtain their water from surface sources, such as creeks and rivers, which are heavily polluted. Municipal wells, some of which are only turned on for a few hours each week, are hardly better, as the ground water is also heavily contaminated. Each water filter costs $50 (USD), cleans even the dirtiest water, and can be operated for approximately two years before needing a new filter element. They are manufactured in neighboring Guatemala by EcoFiltro.
Elizabeth and I are excited to return to help our neighbors to the South this year March 15th - 23rd, and we are hoping that you can join us in supporting this mission. We are paying our own way for the flights and the mission fee, so we are just asking for donations that will be directly used to purchase the supplies and water filters that I have described above.
Thanks for your help, and God bless!
- Roland & Elizabeth
P.S. If you'd like to follow our progress in preparing for the trip, and read updates while we're there, check out our blog: Scotts on a Mission
P.P.S. Here are some of the kiddos we got to help last year :)
In March of last year, Elizabeth and I were blessed to be able to travel to El Salvador as part of a medical mission trip run by Helping Hands Medical Missions.
The mission provides free health care and medications to the needy people we encounter, consistent with Catholic social teaching.
We also provide supplies such as prescription medications, vitamins, over the counter meds, toothbrushes, toothpaste and reading glasses.
In addition to these basics, our mission group has been providing gravity-fed water filters for a few years, and the difference these filters have made cannot be overstated. Many of the folks living in small villages and in the rural countryside have to obtain their water from surface sources, such as creeks and rivers, which are heavily polluted. Municipal wells, some of which are only turned on for a few hours each week, are hardly better, as the ground water is also heavily contaminated. Each water filter costs $50 (USD), cleans even the dirtiest water, and can be operated for approximately two years before needing a new filter element. They are manufactured in neighboring Guatemala by EcoFiltro.
Elizabeth and I are excited to return to help our neighbors to the South this year March 15th - 23rd, and we are hoping that you can join us in supporting this mission. We are paying our own way for the flights and the mission fee, so we are just asking for donations that will be directly used to purchase the supplies and water filters that I have described above.
Thanks for your help, and God bless!
- Roland & Elizabeth
P.S. If you'd like to follow our progress in preparing for the trip, and read updates while we're there, check out our blog: Scotts on a Mission
P.P.S. Here are some of the kiddos we got to help last year :)
Organizer
Roland Scott
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Mount Horeb, WI