Global Stewardship Studies in Belize
During my undergraduate studies in 2002, I sought out the opportunity to spend a semester abroad in Belize, Central America, through a program then called Global Stewardship Studies. I was blessed immensely by this experience and it was while I was here that I knew God-willing I would return to the developing world as well as continue to study natural medicine.
While living in Belize, I met with local farmers, herbalists, biologists, development and healthcare workers while studying sustainable development, rainforest ecology, environmental stewardship and cross-cultural health care in the middle of the beautiful Belizean rain forests and coral reefs. I did an internship with a Gynecologist in a rural hospital and began to learn more about the unique challenges of healthcare in the developing world.
Each morning I pushed aside my mosquito net, shook off the large spiders and walked out of my screen cabin to watch the colony of leaf cutter ants pass by under the boardwalk in the middle of the tropical rainforest. I frequently heard tapirs charging through the Kahun palms, Howler monkeys up in the forest canopy and a symphony of cicadas just as the sun set before dinner under a palm-roofed pilapa.
More stories and photos to come when I can find a way to scan them...
While living in Belize, I met with local farmers, herbalists, biologists, development and healthcare workers while studying sustainable development, rainforest ecology, environmental stewardship and cross-cultural health care in the middle of the beautiful Belizean rain forests and coral reefs. I did an internship with a Gynecologist in a rural hospital and began to learn more about the unique challenges of healthcare in the developing world.
Each morning I pushed aside my mosquito net, shook off the large spiders and walked out of my screen cabin to watch the colony of leaf cutter ants pass by under the boardwalk in the middle of the tropical rainforest. I frequently heard tapirs charging through the Kahun palms, Howler monkeys up in the forest canopy and a symphony of cicadas just as the sun set before dinner under a palm-roofed pilapa.
More stories and photos to come when I can find a way to scan them...