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Photo taken by Rose City Café Server Timothy Morris
Back row from left to right: Kelly Lyons(Layworker/Auto Body Shop Owner), Heather Gough(PCC Dental Hygiene Student), Darold Slack(Dental Equipment Specialist/DA), Debra Anderson(EFDA), Weston Heringer Jr.(DMD), Lorin Rice(DMD)
Front row from left to right: Nina Mahmud (Layworker), Josette Beach(RDH/PCC DH Instructor), Team Leader Dale Canfield(DMD), Charlotte de Renne(Layworker/OTR), Nancy Heringer(Layworker), Heidi Jo Grubbs(RDH)

Travel Itinerary

Saturday – Portland, OR (8:30pm) to SeaTac, WA (9:22pm)
Elapsed time - 52min
Sunday – SeaTac, WA (2:55am) to Taipei, Taiwan (7:50am)
Elapsed time - 12hr, 55min
Monday – Taipei, Taiwan (9:45am) to Phnom Penh, Cambodia (12:20pm = 9:20pm Sunday PST)
Elapsed time – 3hr, 35min

RETURN FLIGHTS

Saturday, February 12, 2005

Cambodia is 15 Hrs ahead of PST.

Day1&2(Saturday/Sunday)

Day 3(Monday)

Day 4(Tuesday)

Day 5(Wednesday)

If you can, check out this movie of the driving conditions. It's amazing people survive the drive :~)

Day 6(Thursday)

Unfortunately I took no photos today.  I guess I was too busy working.  In 3 days we have seen a total of 170 patients.  Mostly the orphans & some caregivers.  We are set up at the one orphanage & then they bring in kids from the other orphanages by the truckload.  Usually there are about 30-40 per group.   We have been working so hard that we are going to take the morning to go to the market and then head back to work after lunch.  We should get some good pictures from that.  We may end up working late, so I'm not sure if I will get them posted tomorrow or not.  I want to put out a thanks to all the friends and family out there who are giving so much support for our team.  We are all thinking about you back home and look forward to getting back to share our experiences.

Day 7(Friday)

Day 8 (Saturday)

Day 9(Sunday)

Day 10(Monday)

Day 11(Tuesday)

Day 12 (Wednesday)

Today was our last day at the orphanage.  Our preliminary count of patients was 405.  Tomorrow we go to Siem Reap by boat.  We fly back to Phnom Penh on Saturday morning & then fly back to the US. 

 

The orphanage is the Foursquare Children of  Promise.  The organization has now established 72 orphanages in Cambodia and are rapidly adding more to the list. 

For more information, go to www.warmblankets.org

We are at  Chom Chao Orphanage.  I was told that it was called by it's old name on  their web site, Toul Kouk.