PT faculty member Amy Foley joined eight other medical personnel from Visitation Parish (Kansas City, MO) on a volunteer trip to San Salvador, El Salvador during the week of October 2 - 9, 2010. The group included physicians and nurse practitioners in addition to physical therapists. They worked for the week within the community of Madre De Los Pobles, Visitation's sister parish in San Salvador.
The volunteers coordinated a health week and were able to treat and educate nearly 250 people from the area The delegation went at a time when the Catholic Church in El Salvador had asked the authorities to step up their fight against a spate of violent murders in the country.
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