After learning about health problems in La Guacamaya, Honduras, a group of students, a physician and nurse volunteers from the University of Arizona School of Medicine joined Seattle-based Salud Juntos to form a “health brigade” and spend five weeks this summer doing health screenings and educating community lay workers who will continue to educate the community.

Led by Dr. Mindy Fain, co-director of the Arizona Center on Aging, the team learned through a friend of Dr. Fain’s daughter traveling in Honduras that vision care was needed, dental hygiene was nonexistent and a rarely used clinic sat in the middle of the rural village.

Then 11 UA volunteers saw more than 1,000 patients during their five-week summer visit.

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