Written by: Brig. Gen. Ron Sconyers (USAF, Ret.), president and CEO, Physicians for Peace
From the field: Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic

The Dominican Republic has long been one of our key partner nations to bring PFP's teaching skills to its public health system. We often hear, 'Why, I've been to the 'DR' and it surely doesn't look like a developing country to me.' Well, it only takes a few minutes to veer off the main highway from the airport to the many exclusive resorts or the Capital City of Santo Domingo to see the country is suffering from unspeakable poverty.

Since 2000, PFP has been working and training here...with amputees, burn victims, and pregnant adolescents. And we've made some remarkable progress.

This trip is a bit different. Monika Bridgforth (Sr. Director of Development and Communications) are accompanying a group of new PFP stakeholders...three new board directors (from NY, VA and Mississippi), a nurse who has a passion for humanitarian work and a business executive who is eager to know more about the work we do.

It's also a reunion of sorts, reuniting LaVern Morris, a founder of our Resource Mothers program, with[...]

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