Mission trip was calling for Jenny Steever

When Jenny Steever graduates with a nursing degree from the University of Wyoming in May of this year, she said she hopes to use her major to see the world by  becoming a traveling nurse. It was a career she’d pondered for a while now, but it wasn’t until mid-November last year when she realized being a traveling nurse was for her as she spent nine days in Honduras on a medical mission trip.

Jenny volunteered to travel with Shoulder to Shoulder, an organization that “exists to serve the poor” and works to achieve a single mission: to develop educational and health programs to help poor, rural communities in Honduras achieve sustainable development and improve the overall health and well being of its residents.

Along with nearly 30 other University of Wyoming volunteers—dentists, nurses, physicians and doctors—Jenny performed general medical procedures at a makeshift clinic in Agua Salada, Honduras. During her nine days there, she took blood and examined the locals’ eyes, lungs and teeth. It was when checking teeth, Jenny realized Honduras is not what she is used to in the states.