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From the Field.

Partnership, logistics, and care: the mission as it really looks.

A HART volunteer and Ghanaian community leader walking arm in arm in traditional cloth — HART
Walking together on a village visit in Ghana

A young patient looks over her mother's shoulder, arm freshly bandaged — HART
On the mend in the post-op ward

Surgeons operating side by side — HART
Side by side in the operating theater

School kit presentation with local teachers — HART
School health kits on education day

Pallets staged for shipment — HART
Shipment staging, months before the mission

Sorting supplies on arrival — HART
Supply sorting & OR setup

Loading the van for the journey inland — HART
Accra to Ahafo, loading day

Volunteers in the supply room — HART
The team between cases

Holding an elder's hand — HART
Geriatric care support

The Utah volunteer team lined up together — HART
The Utah lineup

Schoolchildren in uniform smiling under a covered walkway — HART
A schoolyard welcome for the team

Community members and volunteers seated together at a durbar under bright canopies — HART
Community durbar with local leaders

Traditional leaders in woven cloth walking beneath a ceremonial umbrella — HART
Traditional leaders arrive for the durbar

A clinic building with a bright blue roof, community members working outside — HART
A community clinic takes shape

The newly built Beposo clinic at dusk with neighbors gathered outside — HART
Beposo Clinic on opening day, 2011

The red-earth road and cocoa trees at the future Agyrekrom medical clinic site — HART
The Agyrekrom clinic site, chosen with the community

A local surgical team member in cap and mask in the theater — HART
Local surgical staff at the regional hospital

A nurse in whites and surgical cap in the hospital supply room — HART
The nursing partners behind every mission

Visiting and local clinicians in blue gowns working a case together — HART
A joint case in the operating theater

A full clinic waiting hall in the morning — HART
Clinic morning: the waiting hall fills early

Women carrying goods along a red dirt road — HART
The road our mobile clinics travel

A woman roasting plantain at a roadside stand — HART
Village life between clinic stops

Women and children gathered outside their homes — HART
Neighbors in a community we serve

Volunteers packed into the mission van with luggage — HART
The team rides inland

An elder seated outside his home — HART
Visits like this shaped our geriatric outreach

HART 5K painted on the road as barefoot runners cross it — HART
HART 5K, painted right on the road, Ghana 2011

Bare feet and socks toeing the chalk start line — HART
Toeing the chalk start line, Ghana 2011

A huge crowd of runners and neighbors celebrating on the race road — HART
The whole community turns out, Ghana 2011

Runners and volunteers laughing and clapping together after the race — HART
High fives at the finish, Ghana 2011

Runners wearing race bibs gathering before the start — HART
Runners line up, Ghana 2011

A barefoot runner striding across gravel to the start — HART
Barefoot to the line, Ghana 2011

The crowd of runners seen from road level at the start — HART
On the start road, Ghana 2011

Runners gathered along the course beside a timber truck — HART
Along the course, Ghana 2011

Race morning staging area with numbered runners — HART
Race morning staging, Ghana 2011

The crowd cheers runners along the road — HART
Cheering the runners home, Ghana 2011

Serving with HART billboard standing in a Utah park — HART
Race day billboard, Utah 2016

Volunteers gathered in front of the HART billboard — HART
The Utah crew, Barefoot Run 2016

Three runners showing off their bare feet before the race — HART
Laces optional, Utah 2016

Runners gathering on the grass near the start — HART
Gathering at the start, Utah 2016

A runner striding to the finish line on the grass — HART
Home stretch, Utah 2016

A lineup of bare feet on the pavement before the race — HART
Ready to run, Utah 2016

A smiling volunteer at the HART billboard — HART
Race day smiles, Utah 2016

Runners in yellow Barefoot Run shirts laughing together — HART
Race day joy at the companion race, Ghana

Four runners walking arm in arm in Barefoot Run shirts — HART
Arm in arm at the companion race

A lone runner coming down a long red dirt road through the village — HART
One runner, one long road

Three runners in race shirts giving thumbs up on the road — HART
Thumbs up on the way to the start

A young woman in a Barefoot Run shirt smiling in the crowd — HART
Ready to run, Ghana

A barefoot child mid-stride on the village road — HART
Barefoot, as always

A crowd of runners in yellow shirts gathering near the bus — HART
Runners gather at the staging point

Runners passing through the village while neighbors watch from a truck — HART
The race passes through the village

Children walking and running along the village street on race day — HART
Race day in the village

Teenagers in race shirts clowning together on the road — HART
Team spirit at the companion race

The Utah volunteer team lined up in bright shirts — HART
The Utah crew at the companion race

A young neighbor standing barefoot on the village road — HART
A young neighbor on race day

A painting of a woman carrying a pot, from a Ghanaian market — HART
Artwork from a Ghanaian market

A volunteer in a HART visor amid the race day crowd — HART
In the thick of race day

A young runner snaps a selfie with volunteers before the race — HART
Race day selfies

A volunteer and local runners laughing mid-stride — HART
Running together

Four volunteers running the road course past the speed limit sign — HART
Out on the course

Runners passing palms and banana trees along the course — HART
The course through the palms

Two runners pacing each other down the road — HART
Pacing each other home

A volunteer in a race shirt filming the course on her phone — HART
Capturing the day

A volunteer and a local teen running stride for stride — HART
Stride for stride

The long straight village road mid-race — HART
The village straightaway

A runner flying solo down the road — HART
Flying solo

Three runners side by side on the course — HART
Three abreast

A volunteer with her hand on her heart talking with runners — HART
A word before the start

A runner waves to the camera mid-race — HART
A wave for the camera

A runner in bright knee socks on the open road — HART
Bright socks, long miles

Two runners sprinting on the dirt — HART
A sprint to the line

The field surges off the start on the dirt road — HART
And off they go

Runners strung out along the long road — HART
Mile after mile

Runners jogging past banana groves — HART
Past the banana groves

A mixed pack of runners rolling down the road — HART
The pack rolls on

Runners and neighbors gathering on the dirt street before the start — HART
Gathering at the start

Runners side by side on the course — HART
Side by side

A smiling volunteer in a pink visor at the staging area — HART
All smiles at the staging area

The village street busy on race morning — HART
Race morning in the village

A volunteer laughing with runners near the line — HART
Laughs at the line

A runner holding a steady pace up the road — HART
Steady pace

A lineup of runners in their race kits — HART
Ready to race

A volunteer in the race shirt running along the guardrail — HART
Logging the miles

Two runners spread out in the chase down the road — HART
The chase

A runner with the motorbike escort alongside — HART
The motorbike escort

Volunteers greeting a child carrying a basket at the roadside — HART
A roadside hello

Runners heading away down the long village road — HART
Down the road

A volunteer holding a pair of sneakers — HART
From the shoe drives of years past

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