'The pure pleasure of helping others'

GUAYAQUIL, Ecuador – As word trickled out that an American medical team was traveling to their country to offer free surgeries, people grabbed their children and flocked to the large port city of Guayaquil any way they could.

Some arrived on horseback. Some traveled great distances by canoe.

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