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“It’s a great trip with a great cause,” said Lorie Carpenter, a family nurse practitioner.

Members of the Global Health Program at Highland Family Medicine have been collecting donations and gearing up for months for a trip to help seven communities in southwest Honduras.

“Packing usually goes very quickly, everybody is very organized and efficient and hard working,” said Carpenter.

It’s a project Highland has been a part of since 2003. Every six months they take a two week trip to teach life skills and increase public health in the country.

“We are trying to get them out of poverty enough so they can take on their own problems and fix them,” said Douglas Stockman M.D.

Stockman is the director for the Global Health and Refugee program. He says the program isn’t just about helping people in Honduras, but also getting those in the residency program involved in helping the uninsured here at home. He says there are more than 45 million Americans that live without insurance.

“Family medicine physicians, who do global health work and national health work, generally are more likely to work with the underserved in the US when they finish residency, which is definitely needed,” said Stockman.

Erin Lineman is a second year medical resident at Highland. This is her second trip.

“As far as life experience there is nothing else like it,” said Lineman.

From shampoos to supplements, even books and pencils are being packed to give out. Lineman says she feels it’s her duty to share a little more.

“I think education is something you have to share and not hoard for yourself and just make money with it,” she said.

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