More on Scott Nelson in Haiti

Doctor commits to crushing task
The work of Dr. Scott Nelson is crushing. It’s crushing in the numbers of people he’s treating in Haiti since the Western Hemisphere’s poorest country was leveled by a magnitude-7 earthquake on Jan. 12.
The wounds he’s seeing are crushing in nature, the horrific result of humans caught in flimsy construction when the quake hit.
And the scope of the tragedy is taking its own crushing, psychic toll on those who have gone to the island nation to help repair the torn and mashed bodies of men, women and children.
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Scott Nelson, the son of Peter and Suzanne Nelson, moved to San Luis Obispo in 1970 when he was a week old. In retrospect, it’s safe to say he had medical missionary blood running through his veins: His grandfather, Dr. Olavi Rouhe, served for more than 25 years at a mission in what was then the Belgian Congo. Nelson has said that after having visited his grandfather’s African hospital, church and compound when he was 8, he decided to go into medicine.
That decision, as well as an international outlook, was probably reinforced when he joined his father, a San Luis Obispo dentist, on travels to 25 countries around the world where Peter would work at dental clinics.
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Nelson, 39, is a devoted Christian who has followed a family tradition in attending the Seventh-day Adventist Loma Linda University in Southern California. Indeed, his great-grandfather was the president of the university at one time. Nelson graduated from Loma Linda in 1996 in orthopedic surgery with an emphasis on children. He thrives in what he does, says his father, and that enthusiasm has led him to be one of the top surgeons in his field.
As it turns out, Nelson’s Christian ethic and professional skills dovetailed nicely with a nonprofit organization called CURE International. It’s a nondenominational organization that specializes in childhood bone deformities in developing countries.
So he joined forces with CURE and packed up wife Marni and sons Chad and Alex five years ago and headed to Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic, for a five-year medical and faith-based mission.
The work is a challenge on every level. The pay, for example, is $20,000 a year and requires that he return stateside to practice one week every three months at Riverside County Hospital to help make ends meet.
And there’s physical menace attached to his Dominican practice: Each of the 22 times he’s traveled to Haiti to perform surgery on that island nation’s club-footed children, he’s had to be on the lookout for kidnappers who have been known to return at least one abductee without an arm because he could only raise half his ransom.
But Scott Nelson loves what he does and whom he does it for. He takes deep satisfaction in being able to mend a child’s orthopedic deformity, which, really, is somewhat of a miracle that can make all the difference in how that child can make his or her way in life. It’s that fulfillment that his father says led him to say at one time: “The best payment I ever got was two mangoes and a hug.”
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When word came that parts of Haiti had been devastated on the other end of Hispaniola from Santo Domingo, Nelson quickly put together a team and chartered a plane for the 160-mile flight to Port-au-Prince.
As we now know, confusion, uncertainty and disorder was already reigning at the Port-au-Prince airport. Who was allowed to land was as much of a panicked mystery as to who was allowed to take off.
After circling for an hour, Nelson, according to the plane’s pilot, “sweet-talked” ground control into letting the plane land for three minutes.
“I got him on the ground,” the pilot later related, “but I don’t know what happened to him.” What happened was Scott Nelson and team immediately went to work.
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Peter Nelson has been in sporadic touch with his son; last week, Scott Nelson told his father in a phone call: “ ‘Dad, I get about two to three hours of sleep a night. I’ve had about 90 surgeries so far (as of Jan. 19), with another 20 patients lined up and another 100 left outside. I can’t go outside because they’ll mob me (for help).’ ”
“Are you doing lots of plates and rods?” the senior Nelson asked his son.
“ ‘No, because of the crush wounds, it’s not reconstructive surgery. I’ve literally been cleaning maggots out of wounds. There’s terrible infection and gangrene. Once we get them healing up, then I can go back and do the reconstructive work.’ ”
When Peter Nelson asked his son how he was holding up, he replied:
“ ‘I’m doing good right now, but two days ago I thought I was falling apart. But I’m doing better.’ ”
He told his father that the trauma surgeons who had come to Haiti to help him “ ‘just fell apart and started crying; they couldn’t do it anymore. They’ve left now; couldn’t take it. The psychological coping of the situation was overwhelming to them.’
“I know they’ve got a lot of physicians on the ground working, but they’re all going to leave in two weeks because of their practices,” Peter Nelson said. “There’s going to be a need for a lot of long-term care, and he’s committed himself to being there for the next six months. He’s going to need long-term support.”

“Thoughts and prayers in his behalf are just as important as money,” Peter Nelson said. “He’s our front man, but we’re all part of the team.”
Bill Morem can be reached at bmorem@thetribunenews.com or at 781-7852.

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January, 2010 An update from Karen on our Amistad project in Haiti: Scott Nelson has been working with Amistad for a number of years - since he was a little boy and came with his parents, Peter and Suzanne Nelson, on Amistad mission trips to do dental clinics. Now he's a surgeon and an Amistad partner, who spends a lot of time operating in the Dominican Republic. Here's an update I just received from Scott, who was working in Santo Domingo at the time of the quake: "I felt the quake fairly strong here in Santo Domingo. It did not hit with a hard jolt or shake windows as we have all felt in California. I just suddenly felt like I had vertigo and then noticed the furniture rocking back and forth and it went on for about 20-30 seconds. We are about 160 miles from Port au Prince. I have been there multiple times, but the city where I usually work is Cap Haitien about 80 miles to the north. "The lack of infrastructure and grinding poverty in Port au Prince under normal circumstances is appalling. It is difficult to imagine decimation, suffering, and chaos that is going on at the moment. By land Port au Prince is about a 5 hour drive. We are standing by to help and will likely mobilize as soon as it is possible to travel with the security and infrastructure of an organization. "Obviously they need our prayers and help. I am leaving the Dominican Republic for Haiti as soon as possible, with a small team." Karen adds: By now, Scott is on his way to Haiti, or en route. He wrote again to say that they are preparing their equipment for amputations (this is the most likely scenario - possibly even amputating people out of where they're trapped.) We are collecting money for his team right now. He will be coming back to gather a larger team, so at that time they'll need money for more medicines. (Fortunately, they just got a big donation of medicines yesterday from an agency, that they can take with them right now!) If you want to send a donation for Dr. Scott Nelson, we have a special Amistad fund set aside for his surgery team. The easiest way is to follow this link, and click on the yellow "Donate" button. Make sure you mark it for Haiti. Call me if you have questions! Gratefully,     ......................................................................................................................................................... Contact information: To telephone Amistad International: 650-328-1737 To send a check: Amistad International, PO Box 455, Palo Alto, CA 94302 To e-mail executive director Karen Kotoske: tomamistad@aol.com Our website: http://www.amistadinternational.org/ Our blog: http://amistadinternational1.blogspot.com/ Our Facebook page: Amistad International

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A note from Dr. Scott Nelson

I felt the quake fairly strong here in Santo Domingo. It did not hit with a
hard jolt or shake windows as we have all felt in California. I just
suddenly felt like I had vertigo and then noticed the furniture rocking back
and forth and it went on for about 20-30 seconds. We are about 160 mi from
Port au Prince, I have been there multiple times, but the city where I
usually work is Cap Haitian about 80 mi to the north.

The lack of infrastructure and grinding poverty in Port au Prince under
normal circumstances is appalling. It is difficult to imagine decimation,
suffering, and chaos that is going on at the moment. By land Port au Prince
is about a 5 hour drive. We are standing by to help and will likely
mobilize as soon as it is possible to travel with the security and
infrastructure of an organization.

Obviously they need our prayers and help.

Scott

Karen adds:

Dr Scott Nelson is leaving tomorrow for Haiti with a small surgery team (anesthetist and nurse) , preparing their equipment today for very probable amputations (the most likely scenario for them.) We don't have time to get funds to them for this first trip. But he'll be coming back and going again and taking a larger team, so at that time they'll need donations for medical aid. They just got a big donation of medicines today from an agency so they can take them along tomorrow!

If anyone wants to send a donation for Dr. Scott Nelson (who is an orthopedic surgeon in Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic) Amistad will hold them until Dr. Nelson goes on the next relief trip to Haiti.

A note Sweet Home Orphanage, one of our projects

Dear Friends,

I would like to take this opportunity to thank each one of you for your special interest in Sweet Home. God has been good to us and we have seen and experienced his wonderful love. We are very greatfull to you for all your support. We wish you God's manifold blessings.


With love from Sweet Home Family,
Lilly Kaligithi

Wishing you a Blessed Holiday Season

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Christmas 2009 Dear Amistad friend, I didn't want to miss this opportunity to thank all of you for your generosity in 2009. Most of you are not only participants in Amistad's work, but dear personal friends who encourage us with notes and emails, positive thoughts, prayers and gifts. We want to make sure you know that we don't take any of these kindnesses for granted. I made a short list of some of the things you've accomplished this year through Amistad International. At Paula Leen's Murwira Orphans' Home (MOH) in Marenge, Zimbabwe you've provided a loving home and education for 40 children, not to mention food for over 2,000 in the community. In the past 12 months, you've helped us deliver over 50 tons of food for distribution to the ill, widows and elderly in the area around Marenge, and also at the hospital in Mutare, and at Des Paul's outreach to the poor in Harare. The orphanage is the only employer in the area, providing work for 80 persons. You've given over 3,000 meals per month for the 150 children who attend Amri School in Kenya. The students receive a hot nourishing meal each day which includes bread, beans, rice, tomatoes, onions, cabbage, fruit and milk. You've also provided salaries for 12 teachers, principal, cook and guard and rent of school house. In Mexico's Western Sierra Huichol you've supplied the following services: 24 emergency medical flights, 84,000 hot meals served to 210 Huichol Indian children at three schools: Tecolote, San Miguel and Tuxpan, 250 ill or injured were transported to hospitals and 12,360 lbs. of food and clothing distributed. Five dental teams served 220 patients, and two opthomology teams fitted 150 pairs of donated glasses. You've helped Pathfinder Academy in Kitale, Kenya, complete their dining hall/kitchen complex. Amistad donors are currently helping to build seven greatly needed classrooms which will be completed in 2010. The Worthington, Ohio, Adventist Church provided new chairs and tables for the dining hall. You've provided 24 scholarships so that Buddha's Smile School's 5th grade graduates could go on to middle school. Your gifts bought tuition, books, food, uniforms and afternoon tutoring at BSS, located in Varanasi, India. You've provided monthly overhead expenses (salaries, books, uniforms) for BSS. This year many of you dug deeper into your pockets, providing a prosthetic leg and medical expenses for Sukdev Saini, husband of school founder Rajan Kaur, after he suffered the loss of his leg following an accident in June. This has been one of the hardest economic years for many of us in our lifetimes. But still, our faithful partners came through to keep a great many of our Amistad projects going strong, and we thank you. I believe that kindnesses done for others don't just disappear: they return to us in blessings of many kinds. And so our holiday prayer for you is that this season, and this coming year, will be a year of many blessings. Gratefully, and with affection, PS: The year isn't quite over, and if you've been intending to give a tax-deductible gift to Amistad International, you can still do so. The easiest way is to give to Amistad via PayPal: the gift comes to us instantly, and you can use your credit card, too, in case you're building up travel points. Just follow this link, and click on the yellow "Donate" button. Photo above: Tom and Karen Kotoske, founders of Amistad International     ......................................................................................................................................................... Contact information: To telephone Amistad International: 650-328-1737 To send a check: Amistad International, PO Box 455, Palo Alto, CA 94302 To e-mail executive director Karen Kotoske: tomamistad@aol.com Our website: http://www.amistadinternational.org/ Our blog: http://amistadinternational1.blogspot.com/ Our Facebook page: Amistad International

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I just read eNotas, and also went to your website. The website is gorgeous - it's so full of pictures and stories. So many different projects, all of them so touching. Your web designer is a genius. And eNotas, too, is such a wonderful report. Your graphics and design are outstanding. I loved the stories there, too.

Bravo, dear friend!

Love,

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THANK YOU SO MUCH, KAREN!!

I've already been emailing this around to a few friends and will send to more. I LOVE these communications and am always filled with pride, awe, inspiration and joy at the amazing work that Amistad is doing, powered in large part by the management skills of YOU!!

Susie King

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Karen, I'm not internet connected - or savvy - to be able to see your web. I feel frustrated not being able to help these wonderful projects, but now I know what I'll do with the small gifts I got after Elwood went to his rest on Sept. 6.

Three weeks later I managed to trip on a friend's doorstep and break my left hip. Recovering okay.

We'll be in touch.

Esther McCluskey

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Hi Karen~I always enjoy reading your e.notas! Noticed Dale Twomley in it!! Inspiring stories as well! We're off to Michigan for Thanksgiving, short trip up and back. Hope all is well with you guys! just returned from a trip out west-southern california, very nice to enjoy the sun and watch the waves!

Diane McDermott

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Hi Karen - Your newsletter is awesome....so inspiring.

Happy Thanksgiving!

Ann Down

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Dearest Karen:

Very well done!! A great web site with meaningful stories for each project. I hold you in my highest esteem for the amazing compassion and kindness you share with the poor and disenfranchised.

I keep praying for special blessings for each of your worthy projects.

I still remember the refreshing salt sea air we breathed in at Asilomar.

Countless blessings this thanksgiving. I am privileged to count you as a friend.

Love and hugs!!

Rainbow Iris (Landa)

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News from Amistad International

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November 2009 Dear Friends of Amistad, With this issue of eNotas, we're proud to introduce to you a new Amistad International website. The website's new look is thanks to volunteers Lauren and Val Smith. The Smiths are owners of Lauren Smith Communications Design, a well-known Silicon Valley design firm that's earned numerous national and international awards. Lauren and Val, I'm pleased to say, are dear friends of Amistad International, and have helped us with many design projects through the years, including the beautiful year-end Notas newsletter that you've received in past years. They created our first website, and have now updated it with a new look and new content. If you like it, send Lauren and Val a thank you! As you take stock of your blessings this Thanksgiving season, please remember our Amistad projects, and all the people they benefit. With deep appreciation,     ......................................................................................................................................................... Johannesburg, South Africa: Lambano Sanctuary creates hospice for HIV+ babies:   One of our saddest, but most rewarding projects has been Lambano Sanctuary, a home in Johannesburg, South Africa for young children and babies with HIV+ status We have recently learned that Lambano has received funds from the Luxembourg Government for purchase and renovation of a home which is being made into a hospice for children in need of this special care. We mourn that there is need for a hospice for babies, yet we are grateful for the compassionate mothering staff of Lambano who cares so tenderly for these children. We thank Maree Noble and Elizabeth Stumpf Memorial Foundation, Diane and Bob OBrien, Alan and Tasha Latta, Karen Bezuidenhout and Sarah Reddy for their assistance to Lambano Sanctuary. Many Lambano children live full lives with the help of anti-retroviral drugs. Lambano staff writes about one 8-year-old HIV+ girl who arrived with bronchiectasis, an obstructive lung disease caused by starting anti-retroviral drugs too late. She was on full-time oxygen, and was the size of a 4-year-old when she arrived.   A private pulmunologist could do nothing for her, but the Lambano staff began a regime of physiotherapy three times a day day, including steroids, oxygen and antibiotics. Now they've been able to take her off her oxygen, to the amazement of the pulmunologist. With love, proper care and basic medicines, it is amazing what good things happen at Lambano Sanctuary.     ......................................................................................................................................................... Kenya: Meru tribe girls benefit from anti-circumcision program Amistad grants have educated 62 girls in the "Save a Girl Club" CIFORD, the Community Initiatives for Rural Development, is a wonderful grassroots community organization in Kenya which helps women learn to grow more food, teaches them how to avoid HIV/AIDS, and works to stop female genital mutilation as a rite of passage for young girls. CIFORD participants are members of the Meru tribe which lives on the north-eastern side of Mt. Kenya. Two years ago Amistad gave CIFORD a grant to help stop the illegal and barbaric rite of female genital mutilation of young Meru girls. Those who suffer this operation generally drop out of school and get married very young, with many health complications.   62 girls have gone through a new healthy alternative rite of passage, which includes a course in what womanhood, marriage and motherhood can mean to a young woman who completes her schooling, as well as HIV/AIDS awareness. The graduates have formed a group they call "Save A Girl Club."    Kalayu, a girl who took the CIFORD course, says, "CIFORD has made us see life in a different perspective, because we thought life was about being circumcised and getting married. For women to prosper we need to work hard in school. I want to be a child rights activist in the future."   Student Ann Nkatha, leader of the Save A Girl Club, says "This course is what has made me what I am now: a respected woman in the community. Next year I am starting university. Our people should appreciate that success does not come from circumcision." Writes Margaret Ikiara, founder/director CIFORD, "We thank Amistad for the part you have had in our development. It was the encouraging words, and financial/material support, which enabled us achieve all this. We say a big thank you! (Photo by Ryan Eggers)     ......................................................................................................................................................... Cap Haitien, Haiti: Amistad Doctor Scott Nelson and his Orthopaedic Team Scott writes about his 18th trip to Haiti "Chantale is a 6 year old girl was badly burned last year when she sat on a kerosene lantern. Our hearts were saddened when we saw her for the first time last February. Due to scarring she was unable to stand up, separate her legs or move her right shoulder and elbow. Her caring mother brought her again in June. I promised that I would do something when I returned in September, not knowing if I would have the help I needed to do the case. Fortunately we were joined by Dr. Duncan Miles, a plastic surgeon from Loma Linda University. After 5 hours of surgery we were able to excise the scars around the hip joints and rotate some normal tissue into place, allowing her once again the freedom to stand up.     "The following morning I asked her how she felt and from under her mosquito net she replied, 'Sa va bien, et toi monsieur?' 'It's going well sir, and you?'   "In one of our future trips we will plan to release her shoulder and elbow contractures, allowing her the use of her right hand.   "We were joined on this trip by Dr. Brian Yost. one of my orthopaedic surgery partners from Riverside County Regional Medical Center RCRMC). He also brought with him Louise O'Rourke, RN, director of operative services and Dr. Sagoo 2, one of our excellent ortho residents training at RCRMC. Their expertise, help and donations greatly added to our efficiency, quality of care, and international comraderie."   Go to http://curecaribe.blogspot.com/ to learn more about Dr. Nelson's project. Photo: Dr. Duncan Miles with Haitian burn patient Chantale     ......................................................................................................................................................... From Amistad director Karen Kotoske: Special Thanks to Our Friends! Thank you, Peter and Suzanne Nelson, Alan and Tasha Latta, Kay and Steve Prins, Lindy and Roland Thomason, Patricia Kovalski, Bobby and Bettye Roberts, and the Orvek Family for your tremendous help which keeps aloft the Wings of Love flying clinic for the Huichol Indians. Thanks, too, to Yvonne and Rich Macias and Chris and Bill McClure for their help with our Huichol project. We thank Murwira Orphanage super volunteers Diane and Bruce Hamberger and Jenna and Josh Schaa for their amazing variety of tasks them completed at Murwira orphanage.  We also thank  Greta Schuler (Washington DC), Magali Schroll, (Belgium - in photo), Cesar Plaza (Los Angeles)  and Kourtni Knobel (Colorado) who volunteered this year to work with Paula Leen.  We also thank Carol and Russ Johnson, (Haines, Oregon) who are now at Murwira Orphanage volunteering. Cesar was a huge help in getting orphanage vehicles back in service.  We also thank Carol and Russ Johnson of Haines, Oregon who are at Murwira Orphanage now helping Paula Leen. Thank you, Donna and Larry Peters, for donating the funds to purchase new uniforms and toys for the students at Buddha's Smile School for untouchable caste children in Varanasi, India. Thank you Shadhika foundation and founders Juthica and Peter Stangl for your grant to Buddha's Smile school for  scholarships which are enabling ten BSS graduates to attend middle school this year in Varanasi, Uttar Pradesh, India. Huge thanks to Judith Steiner, Betsy and George Bechtel, Carol and Mahlon Hubenthal, Jacqui and Blair Stewart , Sharleen Fiddaman, Kathie and Jerry Underdal,  and Jack Harrison who put on a fundraiser in Palo Alto, CA, for Buddha's Smile School. This great group of boosters provided eight scholarships for BSS middle school students. We also thank newlyweds Lisa and Phillip Schneider (Sausalito, CA) who suggested to their September wedding that instead of gifts that they would prefer donations be made to Buddha's Smile School. Their generous spirit raised $4010 for crucial needs at BSS. Lisa and Phillip also had an inspirational visit to BSS on their honeymoon in India. Thank you Dale and Connie Twomley and Chris and Bill McClure for enabling us to help persons living with AIDS and HIV+ to start small businesses in Kenya.  Your gifts also is providing food, school fees and clothing for AIDS orphans among the Meru tribe.     ......................................................................................................................................................... Zimbabwe: Paula Leen continues to inspire We've told you about retired church secretary Paula Leen, who operates a private orphanage in the AIDS ravaged nation of Zimbabwe. Food shortages, political unrest and collapsing health and educational systems are part of every-day life. Yet Paula, in her mid-70s, rescues orphans and keeps nearly 2,000 people alive with food from her gardens and orchards, and help from donors worldwide. She works tirelessly despite government instability and surrounding violence. An impossible situation, but she keeps at it and, in the process, is saving thousands. "We pray for miracles," she says. Read her story, as written here by Merikay McCleod, and be inspired to take some helpful action of your own. Amistad wishes to extend deep gratitude to those who have so generously helped Paula Leen and those around her as they work tirelessly to help the people of Zimbabwe survive, heal, and live. In particular we want to thank volunteers Diana and Bruce Hamberger, Jenna and Joshua Schaa, Cesar Plaza, and Yvonne Wyer for their lengthy stays and contributions of strategic (even heroic) help. Paula welcomes mature, qualified volunteers. If you wish information about volunteering, contact Sandy Schultz, our volunteer coordinator, at rifenbark@aol.com.     ......................................................................................................................................................... Varanasi, India: Good news from Buddha's Smile School Donna Peters has donated 220 brand new dolls and stuffed animals to each of the children at Buddha's Smile School in Varanasi India.  Donna and her husband Larry, of Verona, Wisconsin, are long time strong boosters to BSS. This year they have also purchased a DVD recorder so that the teachers can play natural sciences and history DVDs to the students. The Peters also provided uniforms for the students this year. Thank you, Donna and Larry! We would also like to thank Dr. Reena Bhargava and her teenage children, Nikhil and Zoe, who have donated a new computer to Buddha's Smile School. They have also created a series of science and geography lessons which they deliver via SKYPE, linking from their home in Palo Alto, California to BSS in Varanasi, India. Even though it means they must do so typically at 4AM in order to coordinate with BSS, it is working well and the BSS kids are thrilled. Other good news is that the husband of BSS founder/director Rajan Kaur, Sukdev Saini, is doing well with his prosthetic leg. Sukdev was struck by a car in June and his right leg had to be amputated.  He is now back running his small Sarnath Cafe, which is adjacent to Buddha's Smile School.  We cheer Sukdev on!     ......................................................................................................................................................... Sierra Huichol, Mexico: Innocencia's new leg In June, a young Huichol woman was bit by a poisonous snake on her leg. Innocencia Lopez's wound became badly infected and part of her leg had to be amputated. In the ensuing weeks 26 year old  Innocencia became despondent about her handicap: a young woman living in the rough terrain of the mountains, where a wheelchair is almost useless. Sadly, Innocencia tried to take her own life. After her suicide attempt our Huichol outreach pilot/director,  Dagoberto Cirilo, flew Innocencia to Guadalajara for psychological counseling, which seemed to help a bit, though Innocencia was still   very sad. How could she move around the mountainous, uneven terrain of the Sierra Huichol? Dagoberto spoke to the owner of the small prosthetic business in Guadalajara, telling the man about Innocencia's plight. The business owner, Francisco Ortiz, told Dagoberto he'd be willing to help Innocencia. In fact he'd be willing to donate a prosthetic limb to her! A few weeks ago Innocencia was fitted with her new  prosthesis and she has returned to her life in the Sierras with a smile on her face.     ......................................................................................................................................................... Contact information: To telephone Amistad International: 650-328-1737 To send a check: Amistad International, PO Box 455, Palo Alto, CA 94302 To e-mail executive director Karen Kotoske: tomamistad@aol.com Our website: http://www.amistadinternational.org/ Our blog: http://amistadinternational1.blogspot.com/ Our Facebook page: Amistad International

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