Thanks John. I sure did something, because I'm quite tired this week!
The old cliche about getting more than I gave definitely applies
here, though.
The Appalachia Service Project is a bit like Habitat for Humanity,
except that we rarely build anything from scratch. It's almost always
to improve an existing structure, which makes it interesting and
challenging work.
Since Oral B has a factory in Iowa City, we got a hefty donation of
toothbrushes and toothpaste to distribute, which I hope they will use,
though it's not much more than a gesture, really.
Joel W.
On Wed, Jul 29, 2009 at 7:17 AM, John Hermanson<omtech1@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> You've done a good thing, Joel. Speaking of limited health care, a
> group like "Doctors without Borders" now makes regular trips to areas
> like this around the US. Dental care is also seriously lacking.
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> Chuck Norcutt wrote:
>> Thanks for the pictures (and your service). CNN recently had a piece on
>> Clay county discussing the limited health care available in poor, rural
>> areas.
>>
>> Chuck Norcutt
>>
>>
>> Joel Wilcox wrote:
>>> Recovering from a great service trip to Clay county, Kentucky, where I
>>> worked with a crew to do some home repair in a rural area for a family
>>> of six, crammed into a structure about the size of my wife's and my
>>> first apartment when we were graduate students. Some photos are here
>>> (taken with C-8080):
>>>
>>> http://www.facebook.com/album.php?aid=2014291&id=1261510733&l=ae3cd3cb9f
>>>
>>> I had very little time to shoot, much to my regret, but that wasn't
>>> the purpose of the trip. That part of Kentucky is very beautiful to
>>> my eyes, though poor as hell. I can see why people don't leave it
>>> despite such a hardscrabble existence. It was considered bad form to
>>> shoot before and after types of photos, so you can only get an
>>> impression of the structure from the background of the images.
>>>
>>> Meanwhile, the first of my Kodachrome rolls came back from Dwayne's.
>>> I had a recovery day yesterday after the trip and spent a lot of it
>>> scanning.
>>>
>>> Joel W.
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