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University of North Georgia students tend to patients in Peru
MEDLIFE group helps with health care for week and were humbled by poverty of South American country
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During the free mobile clinic, University of North Georgia students rotated to different stations and shadowed doctors and pharmacists. They also conducted the tooth brushing education and helped triage patients. UNG students Jack Camp teaches children how to brush and floss properly. He then handed out free toothpaste and toothbrushes. Seven UNG students traveled to Peru as part of the Medicine, Education and Development to Low Income Families Everywhere organization. The group helps with health care tasks in Latin America and Africa.
A diligent team of seven college students took a week out of their summer break, boarded a plane, traveled more than 3,000 miles and landed on South American soil for one reason — to make a difference in the lives of nearly 600 Peruvian strangers. But the Peruvians were not the only ones affected by the trip. “This has been the most rewarding experience of my life,” said Chloe Hope, a Dacula resident and a biology major at the University of North Georgia Gainesville campus in Oakwood.