Nogales, Arizona

Volunteers

Volunteers are crucial to all Clinic activities. This section features non-health care volunteers. Our volunteers are dedicated to the children. Some have been volunteers with The Clinic for 30 years or as little as a year. They keep coming back because of the good they see happening at The Clinic and how the patients are helped. We feature 16 volunteers here and will rotate through our volunteers every month or so. Please check back often to learn about our volunteers. New faces added October, 2011.

	Records Section (left-right): Noemi Chavarin, Andrea Jimenez, Diego Jimenez, Beatric Ruiz, Fernanda Suarez. These volunteers keep the records organized and pull the charts for patients when they are seen in the different departments. Noemi lives in Nogales, Son. The others live in Nogales, AZ.
Dolores McCulloch has been a volunteer in the Orthopedics Department for 10 years. She gets patients from the waiting room, hands out appointment cards, sends patients to x-ray, and does what a doctor’s receptionist would do. “In 10 years, I think I’ve missed 2 times. I love coming here.”
	Renee Geiger (left), Craig Geiger, (center), and Richard Bates (right) are volunteers in the Vision Department. All live in Tucson. They do intakes and do whatever needs to be done in the Department. Renee says, “I was a Lutheran pastor and my ministry was half Latino in the Phoenix area. I love to work with the Latino community and to be helpful in any way I can. I think the sharing across the Border is so important to give the Latino folks the message about what Americans are.” Craig says, “I used to do many things down in Mexico—seems like a good way for us to serve.” Richard says, “My wife and I were just blown away the first time we were here for a tour. We had tears in our eyes. We knew we had to be here. We are humbled by the thankfulness and graciousness of the people. They can sit here for hours just to wait to hear ‘yes’ or ‘no.’ That’s very powerful for us.”
Bruce Harrington is one of the Parking attendants. He also helps unload the buses and wheelchairs and some of the donations. He has been a volunteer for 5 years. “It’s a good feeling doing this. I like helping out.” Bruce lives in Tubac.
	Alma Vasquez is a volunteer interpreter in the Pediatrics Department. “I am very grateful to come every month and see what I can for other people.”
Kitchen volunteers (left to right): María, Consuela, María, Lizbeth, Alvaro. Each month, they prepare and serve lunch for the volunteers. They all live in Nogales, Son.