This ambulance arrived in San Salvador yesterday and was to be given the the Mayor. It was purchased last year by individual members of the Church of Christ and Rotary Clubs. Using a government program that is humanitarian in nature, we had the US Air Force fly it down there on a space-available basis at no cost to us. It was not a fast and easy process. It was driven to Whiteman Air Force Base in central Missouri, flown to Charleston Air Force Base in South Carolina, then to Tegucigalpa, Honduras, and finally to San Salvador.

Now our challenge is to teach them to use it wisely and efficiently. We need to train their operators and medics. We were not allowed to send very much medical equipment/supplies on the plane--not even oxygen bottles. It has a gurney in the rack, a folding gurney, 2 backboards, lots of sheets and blankets and pillows, and a box of gauze. If used properly, it can save lives.

God bless you, Ralph