Kimball Grad Provides Care In Impoverished Africa
When she landed in Africa, Carli Wurdeman recalled, "I stepped off that plane, and I got slapped in the face."
Carli, a 2020 Kimball High School graduate,was talking about the oppressive heat in Accra, Ghana. Accra is 8 degrees north of the equator.
"I had flown out of Denver, changed planes in New York, then straight to Ghana, and I had on long pants and a hoodie," she explained.
Accra is the capital and largest city in Ghana, located on the southern coast at Gulf of Guinea.
The heat wouldn't be the only shocker that 19-year-old Carli would deal with on her two-week medical journey in June to...