Victoria García, 57, is from Los Planes del Horno, a remote satellite village of Comayagua that has neither electricity nor running water. She is a wife, a mother of nine and a grandmother.

Paula first came to St. Benedict Joseph Medical Center last November for treatment by a visiting U.S. specialist who was part of the Light of the World team.

Mishael, accompanied by his father and older brother who is deaf, arrived at SBJ on Monday, May 16th, along with several hundred other potential patients. Later that week he underwent a successful surgical procedure performed by Dr. Paul Radway of Colorado.

When the friars first met Betty Saraí last year, she was almost a year old, severely malnourished, developmentally delayed and only minimally responsive and interactive with others.

Lilian, 18, first came to the St. Benedict Joseph Medical Center in August 2005 for a consultation with visiting orthopedic surgeon Dr. John Kelley of Atlanta. Through Dr. Kelley’s efforts, Lilian was sponsored for surgery in the US by Childspring International of Atlanta.

Paulina came to the Medical Center for surgery after having been diagnosed with bilateral cataracts. The lenses of both eyes were completely clouded to the point of blindness, and she needed assistance to make her way through SBJ on the day of surgery.

Josué Inez Martinez-Palma is an 11-year-old boy who came to San Benito José and received a successful hernia operation on our January surgical mission.