Today, DARLA MATTHEW BAS, RT, RDMS completes the chronicle of her experiences assisting Project Vietnam Foundation and jump-starting an ultrasound training program in Ho Chi Minh City.

As I mentioned in Part 1, the genuine gratitude and eagerness that you observe while traveling abroad to assist in humanitarian causes is transformative and eye-opening. Although some people carry a natural sense of anxiety toward foreign travel, my experience on multiple visits to Uganda was remarkably similar to Darla’s.

The overwhelming aura was a thirst (or hunger) for the technology and resources to help their patients and to achieve self-reliance, as well as a profound thankfulness — sharing the common aspirations of improving health care and love of family.

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