Dr. Peggy Sarjeant of Seattle had just gotten home from a COTN Haiti medical team trip when she went to get her hair cut. She couldn’t hide her emotional state, having just experienced working with children who had been injured in the recent earthquake. “I was kind of in shell shock at the time,” Dr. Peggy remembers.

She shared a little about the trip with her hair stylist, Patience McGhan of Sugarcomb Salon in the Phinney Ridge area, whom she’s known for years. But it wasn’t until about a month later at Peggy’s next appointment that she shared more deeply about her time helping the Haitian children in COTN’s care. “Patience asked how I was doing adjusting back to life, and I told her that I was doing fine but was frustrated that there was still so much need,” Dr. Peggy says. “I told her that I really wanted to go back, but being able to afford the time and money to do that was a difficult thing to do. So, she literally said, ‘Well, what could you do here?’” Peggy expressed that the best way to help right now would probably be donating funds to Children of the Nations’ work[...]

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