In February 2006 I accompanied a team of Savanah doctors who traveled to Guatemala under the aegis of Houston based relief organization Faith In Practice. FIP's mission is to treat the poor, mainly Maya population who would otherwise have no access to medical care. Forty-four weeks a year FIP sends medical teams from all parts of the US and Canada to work in the town of Antigua and villages in the surrounding countryside.

In '06 my role was to support the doctors in any way needed. I did everything from work in the kitchen, to buy food in the mercados, to load and unload trunks full of medical equipment and supplies to hold flashlights while dentists pulled teeth in dark makeshift village clinics.

Later that year Faith In Practice asked me to return to Guatemala in February 2007 as staff photographer for the Savannah team.

In 2007 I captured these images in various locales: the operational base at the hospital Obras Sociales de Hermano Pedro which was originally founded by a Franciscan friar in 1666 and where the surgeons work their magic, the Casa de Fe which is the Obras's answer to the Ronald McDonald House, and around the town of Antigua and in outlying villages where the dental and non-surgical medical teams treat rural patients.

The Obras also serves as home to orphans, the elderly and the physically and mentally handicapped.