"God calls all to be involved in His mission work." Dr. Domo
has heard God's question, "Who will go?" (Isaiah 6:8) and has answered, "Here I
am Lord, send me." In March 2006, after hours of long work, Dr Domo set up a
dental clinic in the Love and Hope Orphanage in San Salvador, El Salvador. The
team went with "Teams to the Nations."
"I started out in 2004 with a group travelling to Mexico. I
didn't know why, but I had the feeling I was supposed to go to Mexico," Dr Domo
said. "I was able to connect with a group featured in an article in the
American Dental Association newletter." Dr Domo responded to this calling. It
soon became obvious why he was sent to Mexico. "When my pastor found out, he
urged me to go take care of the kids in the orphanage our church sponsors in El
Salvodor," Dr. Domo recalled. "I didn't know how to setup a mobile dental
clinic, so I duplicated what I had seen with the Mexio mission group."
Dr Domo's efforts were quickly rewarded with donations by
local area dentists. Equipment for the venture was donated along with needed
dental supplies.
El Salvador Known as the land of volcanoes, natural disasters
including hurricanes and earthquakes as well as twelve years of civil war, have
left this tiny Central American Country in unyielding poverty. Its people are
among the most malnourished in hemisphere, and the most helpless victims are
6,000 orphaned or abandoned children. A 50% unemployment rate, jobs that pay as
little as essentials as costly as those in the U.S. make ere survival'' Imagine
living in a one room house made of scrap sheet crumbling bricks, and cardboard
with no electricity or running water. This is reality for more than half the
population. Imagine children roaming the streets begging for food, digging
through garbage or turning to prostitution or gangs. Imagine these harsh
realities: I in 10 children have been orphaned or abandoned 80% of the children
suffer from malnutrition 59% of the population lives below the poverty level 80%
have no sanitation, 93% have no electricity 270,000 minors work as street
vendors 30% of children do not attend primary school 15% graduate 12th
grade.
