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www.oakvillebeaver.com The Oakville Beaver, Friday January 25, 2008 - 17 CCARE's relief efforts continue in Guatemala By Tim Whitnell SPECIAL TO THE BEAVER When an Oakville-based humanitarian organization resumes its annual trek to help people in downtrodden parts of Guatemala this March, a doctor who works at a Burlington medical clinic will tag along for the first time. Dr. Jennifer Conners, a family physician who works out of the Burlington After Hours Clinic on Harvester Road, is making her inaugural trip to the Latin American country later this winter with members of the Canadian Central American Relief Effort (CCARE). "I'm the head of the healthcare team. Our focus will be teaching the teachers (at clinics). We'll be focusing on (illness) prevention and long-term care as opposed to short-term care," said Conners. She said her small medical contingent of nurses and lab technicians will be going to Zacapa Province in the eastern part of Guatemala. Part of their job will be to visit about 90 students at a "I'm looking forward to helping the people improve their own health status through nutrition and health concepts." Dr. Jennifer Conners school in the town of Volcancito. "We'll do baseline evaluation of students -- height, weight, hemoglobin and cognitive development," said Conners, who had doctor's privileges at Joseph Brant Memorial Hospital in the 1990s. "I've been involved with the group (CCARE) for two years. I'm looking forward to helping the people improve their own health status through nutrition and health concepts." Conners made a similar trip in September 2007 when she accompanied a medical mission to the African country of Nigeria. CCARE was founded in 1998 by Oakville resident Hilda Rossi. It was formed immediately after Hurricane Mitch devastated parts of Guatemala. It focuses on projects in education, economic development and health. The Guatemalan efforts are geared toward building self-sustaining communities in the Central American country through the construction of houses, a community centre/health clinic, community store, multi-skill centre, donation of corn grinding machines, a poultry project, a fertilizing project as well as the delivery of life skills training, health and education. "After a natural disaster, many organizations help but they forget how the people will re-construct their lives again. The re-construction is the hard and long one," said Rossi. She has organized eight humanitarian trips to Guatemala so far, with about 120 Canadians having gone on those missions. The upcoming mission will be split in two parts, from March 1April 6 and March 27-April 6, with two groups going -- one a medical/education contingent going for two weeks and the other working on a dental/water project. 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