Hello, my name is Ryan Newswanger, and I’ll be your blogger during Dominican Republic Projects’ trip to the D.R. March 5 through 15. I put together a short video introducing myself.
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“This Matches Well With What I Want to Do”
Dwayna Covey, the Manager of Safety and eLearning Systems at Dartmouth-Hitchcock, shares both her hopes – and her fears – about next week’s trip to the Dominican Republic.
Packing Day
Our group spent this afternoon filling suitcases with medical supplies, dental care kits, second-hand clothing, and foam clown noses in a sunlit room at the Norwich Congregational Church.
In order to maximize the amount of supplies that we can take to the Dominican Republic, we each used our airline baggage allowance to pack the biggest suitcase possible with much-needed items, and will limit our clothing and personal items to what we can fit in our carry-on luggage.
More About Dominican Republic Projects
Rita Severinghaus, founder of Dominican Republic Projects, and Chris DiPaola, who traveled with Rita to the Dominican Republic in 2010, sat down with Tom Kidder last year to recount their most recent trip. The video offers a good overview of the work performed by DRP.
Read more about DRP in the 2010 Dartmouth-Hitchcock Nursing Annual Report, and view an additional slideshow.
The Things We Carry
After several months of emails and phone conversations, the group that will go to Cotui, Dominican Republic in March as part of Rita Severinghaus’ DR Projects program finally gathered in person.
It was not a gathering of strangers; all of us work at Dartmouth-Hitchcock or Dartmouth (or recently worked at D-H, in Raeann’s case). And we had a lot to talk about: hotel arrangements in Boston, malaria medication options, the arm-stinging pain of Hepatitis A shots, how good it will feel to wear a T-shirt in the Caribbean after a New England winter. Continue reading
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