KFWH Student Intern Speaks About Her Experience in Bolivia

  Below you will find excerpts from a letter from one of our founder/members, Emily Wharton, who was working as a KFWH student intern with doctoral researchers, Eva  Clark and Lauren Pring  and the villagers in Camiri,  Bolivia. Emily’s goals were to document the work  on Chagas Disease and to create a video film explaining the Chagas treatment process in order that villagers may lessen their fears of surgery.  Her experience was inspiring  and shows first- hand the value of our efforts. “I’ve been in the field these past few days and it has been amazing. I love visiting the communities and talking to the villagers and I have gotten a ton of footage. I have a lot to tell you about all of it, but am very busy working with my footage and doing translations!  Eva and I just wrote up a script for the most focused video; a video for patients whose hearts are in a really bad condition and need a pacemaker, but who are scared...

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