Since that visit in May we met again in Spokane with Dr Norm, his wife Sue, and their daughter (a dental hygiene student) along with Dr Frank Ogden and his wife Carol. Dr Ogden spent many many years teaching surgery in Burundi, and the medical school there bears his namesake.
Dr Norm has been busy procuring a host of dental equipment to go on a shipping container bound for Burundi. Just last month he went down to Oklahoma to the headquarters of World Dental Relief to get the equipment and drive it on a Ryder truck to Indiana where it would load on the shipping container. World Dental Relief is a charitable supplier of dental supplies and equipment to 3rd world missions. Dr Norm came away with 5 dental chairs, lights, stools, other small equipment, and a load of small supplies such as gloves, gauze, scalpels, sutures, etc.
Here are a few pictures of the process (Dr Norm in plaid, Dr Ron Lamb, owner of WDR, in white shirt). Pray that all of this valuable equipment makes it safely to it's destination and that customs officials in Burundi will allow it to pass through quickly and without high tariffs.
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