TUCSON, Ariz. (KGUN) — While galore students walk their autumn interruption relaxing, 3 precocious schoolhouse seniors spent 10 days connected a aesculapian ngo with their mothers, who enactment successful the field.
Christine Leon reflects connected their travel saying, “it’s oculus opening for sure.”
The travel was portion of Ghana Make A Difference. Twice a year, a radical of aesculapian professionals marque the travel to Ghana to supply aesculapian attraction to the astir susceptible children successful Ghana.
Dr. Chris Kettelle said, “we did 105 operations.” During their clip successful Ghana, they saw 264 patients.
"Patients kept coming and coming and we tried to instrumentality attraction of them until the extremity of the day, and they would wait. They would not person thing to devour oregon portion and they were hungry, but they ne'er complained," said Dr. Songsiri Chanvitayapongs. "They were ever truthful benignant and precise grateful.”
The travel gave the 3 precocious schoolhouse seniors acquisition dissimilar immoderate other. Kettelle said her girl “got to assistance maine hands on, adjacent to maine during operation.”
It was a sensation of what each 3 girls privation prosecute arsenic a career.
“Hopefully I privation to purse medicine similar my mom," said Olivia Cho.
Molly Kettelle said, "okay earlier the travel I thought I wanted to beryllium a pediatrician. After the trip, I don’t know. I truly liked what she did.”
Ava Leon added, “hopefully thing successful the aesculapian field, I’m funny successful it."
The travel allowed the girls and their moms to acquisition the civilization Ghana has to offer, each for a bully cause.
“They embraced america with truthful overmuch love,” said Cho. "It’s bittersweet that we astir apt won’t spot them again but it was bully knowing they volition retrieve me.”
It was besides a large accidental to enslaved with their moms. According to Leon, “I beryllium her the world. She’s my champion friend.”
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Heidi Alagha is an anchor and newsman for KGUN 9. Heidi spent 5 years arsenic the greeting anchor successful Waco wherever she was named the champion anchor squad by the Texas Associated Press. Share your communicative ideas and important issues with Heidi by emailing heidi.alagha@kgun9.com oregon by connecting connected Facebook, Instagram, and Twitter.
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