1503.5 pounds of supplies!

We have the final group of 45 participants traveling to Quito with the project this summer. This includes physicians, undergraduates, medical students, social workers, public health students and film students.

After counting pills (including 7,800 Tylenol) and weighing everything, we learned we were trying to bring down more weight than we could possibly carry with the number of Project participants--that was quite a day! After removing a few items and compromising on a few others, we're down to a weight that we can distribute among Project members. The estimated total for supplies including all the medicine and diagnostic items for the clinic, vitamins (400,000!), soap, toothbrushes and toothpaste is 1503.5 pounds- not including the film supplies! (we're still waiting on receiving the vitamins and prescription meds so this is a rough estimate based on last years numbers) Thanks to everyone for helping to bring these items down to Quito!

T minus 1 week....

Get ready, folks. The Quito Project officially hits the ground for summer 2006 in just one week. In May, our first talented team of tutors will open shop in our "casita" in Chillogallo and work with children ages 3 through 13. Stay tuned for updates from the team.

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