8th Graders Experience ‘Real Life’

On November 19th, all 8th grade students visited Medical Teams International’s REAL LIFE exhibit in Tigard, Oregon.  Our 8th graders learned first hand that the world is a place of many needs and that making a positive difference is as easy as getting involved.  The trip gave students the opportunity to step into eight places where the volunteers of Medical Teams International serve with local in-country partners.  Among the scenes they observed were:

• A medical triage clinic after Typhoon Haiyan in the Philippines.
• A room with a 25-foot tsunami wave, along with stories and drawings made by children who survived the tsunami.
• A Ugandan camp for people displaced by a terrorist group that abducts children and forces them into their “army.”
• A Haitian earthquake site and a tent camp where homeless Haitians are living.
• A Mozambiquan village compound where HIV and AIDS have ravaged the community.