Our October team was able to dodge Tropical Storm Melissa as she was brewing in the Southern Caribbean. Still, we “enjoyed” a couple of those downpours that our volunteers...
read moreA highlight of our July trip was having a team with us from the University of Nebraska College of Dentistry: Dr. Rick Williamson, a prosthodontist, was joined by three...
read moreWe continue plan for our future and growth! As we lay the groundwork that will allow us to serve many more patients, we are excited to welcome Wander Cubilete...
read moreJuly 1 marks the changing of our Board’s leadership. Dr. Jim McCann, whose term as Board Chair overlapped the pandemic, oversaw a period of remarkable challenge, but also incredible...
read moreGreetings from Somos Amigos! We’re about three weeks out from opening our clinic again, a good time to give you an update. The April trip will see the clinic...
read moreOn January 1 we officially welcomed Magaly Peralta to our Board of Directors. This is an important milestone for Somos Amigos, in that we now formally have a representative...
read moreIn the late 1980s, my colleague Tom Drexler and I started a service program at Georgetown Prep called Somos Amigos. Our challenge: how do you take a young person...
read moreDecember 2021. We’re back! After nearly two years, we are back! We are very happy to announce that we will have volunteers staffing our clinic again in 2022! We...
read moreHace mucho tiempo! Summer greetings to everyone. I wanted to take this opportunity to update you on our plans for resuming volunteer trips to the Dominican Republic. The bottom...
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