You've read on my blog often about the Termans, my good friends in Boulder, CO.Artists, activists, world travelers, and dear folks with a highly developed sense of personal sacrifice, James and Carolyn make at least one trip each year to some far-off spot in service to local residents in need.
This year it's Ethiopia, and medical clinics in Addis-Ababa and the surrounding country side.
While Carolyn helps out in the clinic -- registering patients, taking medical histories, reassuring fearful patients, etc. -- illustrator James sketches physicians and nurses at work, and helps engage their local patients.
When the medical service trip is over, and babies have been delivered, cut chins stitched, broken bones set, and health care plans discussed with patients, James publishes a book of illustrations he's made and presents to local Ethiopian officials, the patients themselves, and the volunteer medical staff who travel around the world, on their own nickel, to service people less fortunate than they.
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