Red de misericordia; the place where it happens

Red de Misericordia is a medical clinic, school, and safe shelter to abused children in the Dominican Republic by providing for their basic physical needs, education, spiritual instruction and preparation to become useful and productive citizens. The clinic is mostly funded by the VISION OF HOPE Residential Treatment Center of Lafayette, Indiana, U.S.A and other sister donors. As a volunteer in the leadership in public health program that CIEE offers in Santiago de los Caballeros, Dominican Republic, I work in the clinic by first bonding with the kids and being around the physicians and psychiatrists that treat them, so that I may learn more about their impacts medically in these children's lives. The clinic is a huge foundation of the struggling children in the community of Santiago.