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That morning

So we set off for the orphanage of Sovannaphum – Jacqueline, Anne, Sotikun, and our dear Dominique – yes … a little masculine energy was required in this small group of osteopaths. Once the girls had been raised into the “cattle truck” as we called it, or “children’s bus” in Asia, we drove for a few kilometres away from Battambang …

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One journey leads to others

MISSION IMPRESSIONS NOVEMBER 2017 Under the aircraft wing we could see the muddy diversions of a river, and a flooded plain. I was dazzled by the water everywhere! An immense lake at the centre of the country, which either emptied into the Mekong, or was filled during the monsoon by an inversion streaming in from a stretch flowing back from …

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The desire to leave

The desire to leave to discover other things, other horizons, other ways of living, but not as a tourist. To travel while exploiting a passion that inspires me – doing good to others. Feeling that I’m useful with what I can offer. And this is what I have been able to achieve with DOCOSTEOCAM. A close-knit group always ready to …

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Hands that heal

Hands that heal, accompany, surround, embrace and give. 
 Cambodia, day after day, treatment after treatment, encounter after encounter, the desire to experience a moment together.
 An, Sophea or Sun – the first name of that young lady with pink tracksuit bottoms.
 She stood close to my treatment table and watched me.
 She waited for me to gesture she could …

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A few words on my second assignment

To speak of my second assignment, I have decided not to speak of the treatment, the children, the suffering encountered: others are much better with words than me for this purpose. 
I would like to talk about US, those of us who take part in these missions, and who come back from these travels as changed persons, who find it …

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