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Carrying the cross
Many people carried crosses, this was one of the larger ones. The largest one looked like they had...
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Uploaded on Jun 25, 2006
Virgin Mary
The culmination of this parade was the enormous statue of the Virgin Mary being wheeled down the street
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Uploaded on Jun 25, 2006
Cucuruchus
This purpled robed men (and a few women) are part of the Easter procession in Quito.
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Uploaded on Jun 25, 2006
Neon Jesus
This photo is from one of the nightly Holy Week parades that passed by my bedroom window (not a lot of sleep that week).
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Uploaded on Jun 25, 2006
Luz Maria
One of the two women who coordinate all the projects that the midwives and health volunteers do.
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Uploaded on Jun 25, 2006
Drying Plants
Pamela, Jorge and Luz spreading out plants to dry in the sun. The last step before putting them in bags to sell for teas
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Uploaded on Jun 25, 2006
Pamela y Susi
Two of the other volunteers (both from Ecuador) sorting more plants. This turned into an almost 3 week project, but was tons of fun.
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Uploaded on Jun 25, 2006
Sorting plants
One of the many small projects I helped with at Jambi Mascaric, sorting out plants to clean, dry and put into packages to sell for medicinal teas
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Uploaded on Jun 25, 2006
Future home of "Mama cuna Huasi"
This is the site where the house now is before it had been leveled. It was the midwives idea to...
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Uploaded on Jun 25, 2006
Tying together the frame
Long leaves, mostly from palms, were used to tie the frame of the house together.
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Uploaded on Jun 25, 2006
The maestro and the house
The man in the background is who was hired, by request of the midwives, to build the house. It was...
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Uploaded on Jun 25, 2006
Building the house
These are the posts that made the basic frame for the small house that will be used for the midwives...
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Uploaded on Jun 25, 2006
Jambi Mascaric
Jambi Mascaric means "looking for health" in Quichua and is the native health organization...
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Uploaded on Jun 23, 2006
Inside the Hospital
This is the waiting room for all of the out patient consultations. This is the end of the afternoon,...
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Uploaded on Jun 23, 2006
Hospital
Outside of the hospital in Cotacachi, this hospital with 10 nurses and 7 docs, serves an area of...
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Uploaded on Jun 23, 2006
Inside the Restaurant Kitchen
Inside the kitchen at my host family's restaurant. They are wonderful people, the kitchen just wasn't very sanitary.
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Uploaded on Jun 23, 2006
Old couple and piglet
This is piglet number two going in the sack. This couple bought two piglets at the animal market in...
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Uploaded on Jun 23, 2006
My two Mamas and Laura Dena
