FOL Comalapa Delivers Project Handclasp Medical Supplies
December 26, 2007
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For the second time in one week, the U.S. Navy’s Forward Operating Location (FOL) Comalapa, El Salvador has joined efforts with Project Handclasp to carry out another community relation (COMREL) project in a poor community just outside the city limits of San Salvador.
The FOL sailors delivered two donated Project Handclasp pallets of medical supplies to the Clinica Asistencial Iglesia Nazaret. The clinic is a non-profit organization run by the Iglesia Nazaret with doctors and other medical personnel who donate their time on the weekends to provide much needed free medical assistance to the local community. The volunteers from the FOL spent about an hour unloading and storing the needed medical supplies that were delivered to the clinic.
CDR Charles Groves, FOL Comalapa Commanding Officer was on hand to help deliver the much needed supplies and said, “This holiday season is about giving, the only thing this costs us is time. I was very happy to give my time for such a worthy cause.”
FOL Comalapa sailors participated earlier that week with a COMREL Project at an orphanage in conjunction with Project Handclasp on December 11, bringing an early Christmas to the children of “Hogar del Niño San Vicente de Paul” orphanage.
FOL Comalapa’s primary mission is to provide logistical support to aerial counter-drug aircraft and crews from U.S. military and government law enforcement organizations, and promoting Theater Security Cooperation (TSC) like COMREL events in the El Salvador area.
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