Reflections on Third World Encounters by Susan Alexis Founded in 1986, Volunteers in Medical Missions is one of various organizations allowing comfortable first worlders to make a one or two week incursion into the heart-rending poverty of the third world. From various states, from diverse religious denominations, from differing walks of life and of varied ages, the everyday Americans who form Volunteers in Medical Missions leave the comfort and safety of home to bring help and hope to the less fortunate.
Questions arise when one mentions third world work.
Her articles and stories have appeared in various national magazines. Dr. Abercrombie relates via a particularly heart rending incident how and why he founded VIMM, opening the way for the following narratives. Return of a Native Son. A Guatemalan born American doctor revisits the village of his birth. The team saves a baby's life.