VCOM View Vol 10 No 1

Top: Aisha, a village volunteer, gives a presentation on how to prevent fistulas by ensuring women get to a health facility on time. Above left: Fistula survivors in the rehabilitation program at Danja Fistula Center. Without treatment, these women risk rejection by their villages, abandonment by their husbands and a life as social outcasts because of this ailment. Above right: Chelsea Porter, DO (in photo on the right) who says she was grateful for the opportunity to serve others in El Salvador. “

I felt the Lord call me to become a doctor to share his love with the many hurting and in difficult places. This became my drive. I had seen the suffering and I knew I wanted to respond.”

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