Huffington Magazine Issue 8 | Page 88

Exit preciation for the long hours and hard work doesn’t go unnoticed. “There’s just a genuine gratitude that you feel from these people,” he says. “They don’t forget about you down there, either. They remember your name.” One woman who regained her sight after surgery even named her baby, Randy, after the doctor who helped her. “People always say I’m so giving. But I get a lot more than I give from the program,” Martin said. “It makes me value what I have. I have a TV, a car, clean water, a bathroom. These people don’t have these things. It’s a whole diff \