From December 24, 2018, to January 7, 2019, volunteers from 14 countries set out on a mission organized by the Northern California Conference to provide medical, dental, welfare, and spiritual aid to a small village known as Bakafa, five hours south of Addis Ababa, Ethiopia.
The first volunteers arrived in Addis Ababa on December 23 and began purchasing supplies and the necessary equipment. We gathered our supplies, packed up three buses full of volunteers and set out on a long, bumpy, 8-hour journey to Bakafa.