(A portrait of the Artist in Residence, Cristian Lopez, at Pedro Tesak School for Creative Intelligence.)

..part of the compound where, in the closing hours of a long busy week seeing hundreds of women, our dear friends, the staff of the Clinics under Ministerio De Salud honored us with an overwhelming, over-the-top tribute to PINCC this evening in Barrio Delgado...

This came as a total surprise to all of us.

The National Army Band was there, as well as the young ones of the school in an indigenous drumming corps...complete with 10-ft-tall walking puppets to greet our arrival.

the Director of one of the clinics gave us a presentation and distributed Certificates of Appreciation to all of us on behalf of the El Salvador Ministry of Health....expressing extreme gratitude for the gift PINCC is leaving them: an electrical excision biopsy machine ($15K I am told). We were given a tour of the grounds and gardens and feted by a trio of musicians at the supper hall...

What can I say? I was (almost) speechless... (o.k., when have you ever known me to be speechless?). I only wish Dr. Kay and Pat Sax, the founding mothers of PINCC were here to receive this as they are the ones who truly deserve it.

We will be wrapping up our stay here in San Salvador tomorrow and flying down to Peru in the afternoon

Next stop: Lima

Abrazos,

Mai