In fact, medical instructors represent one of the fastest-growing needs worldwide. Another education possibility comes in the form of partnerships between national medical schools and those in the United States, in which both sides benefit from joint efforts in research and study. McLoren sees a bright future for medical missions and the changes in New Directions. Reprinted with permission from Baptist Press. Overlooking the valley below where the sprawling city of Tijuana covers every inch of visible land, the hill itself is a densely populated squatter community of 100,000 people.
Children play on the dirt patches outside of their simple cement-block houses.
Some streets are paved while others are rutted dirt paths where sewer water runs off to the valley below. The father would be a good candidate for the program, but doesn't want to turn himself in. He was one of the first boys to come and live at the rehab center. Kathy and her husband Greg work with an expanding program that helps alcoholics and homeless boys in the dusty neighborhood of Grupo Mexico where their shelters are located. Church members provided showers and a blanket, but, with no place to live, the men returned to the streets.