My insights and experiences are vast...but my time and our bandwidth is short for now. I have hundreds more photos that I want to share now but our internet is very unstable here. I'm excited to get back to my high speed and download all of the pictures that are capturing our time here.
Our dental care is very needed here. (Creekside and Burning Tree Team: you will laugh at the disorganization of supplies compared to our offices!) The sugar cane, that is so popular here, causes so much of the dental misery. Many young children suck on it and eat on it constantly. By age 5, many, if not the majority have black teeth. Their mouths are almost entirely ruined due to rampant decay and fracture. This results in a lot of pain and also a lot of infection. We're hoping that education to the moms and families (through our translators, of course), can change the course of their health and teeth.
Looking out of our clinic, you see the shack dwellers going about their day with various activities. They harvest from the plants just outside of this window for food. The Khmer people are a people with a depth of disposition I have never seen. They are a strong blend of genuine and long-suffering strength. There is no middle class here due to genocide. As you travel through Cambodia, you see a huge chasm between the elite and poor, making it truly "foreign" culture.
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