Vision mission playa del carmen and Cozumel Feb 2006
Giving glasses to those children who would have never been able to afford them. 250 kids were tested and fitted with glasses donated from
Dr. Patricia Gallagher,Dr. George and Diane Hagen, Dr.Julia Regan





Dear Lavonna,

What a great mission! The
arrangements on your end were way more than we expected; muchas gracias!

After looking back, we think this is the best mission experience we have
had. Working with the children was just great and we hope we were able to
change a few lives for the better.

The accommodations and food were "out of this world." I'm afraid we got
spoiled and it will be hard to adapt to the way of life we experienced on
other trips if we do future missions. But, we will... because the smiles and
hugs we get make it all worthwhile.

Please thank all the volunteers that helped us because they did an
outstanding job. We could not have worked without them and I certainly
appreciated the good cooks in the kitchen. Wow, what great homemade Mexican
fare! And please thank the restaurant owners for dinner. I took a few of
their cards and will hand them out to friends that are planning to vacation
in Playa and hope they visit the restaurants that were so gracious to us.
Muje Rico! (spelling?)

We have ordered the glasses and they are being processed by our lab. We
should get them in plenty of time before we head back to Tulum. Juan called
us after we got back and said he would volunteer to come to Tulum to pick
them up if you wanted him to.
So, thanks again for all of your help. You are a wonderful and competent
person and we truly appreciate how smoothly things went. And we hope things
went as smoothly for the Michigan team that followed us. We were amazed how
you could "pull a rabbit out of the hat" and get them rooms; but then again,
you are a very, very special lady that "just gets things done."

Muchas gracias! And I have attached a few photos of the mission.

With all of our love,

George and Diane Hagen