This Week on The Heart of Giving: Teresa Tyson shares the remarkable story of The Health Wagon, America’s oldest mobile free clinic serving Central Appalachia.

Three powerful moments:

#1 “We were founded by Sister Bernie Kenny… She actually started the clinic first of all in the back of a Volkswagen Beetle, just going up and down these mountain roads. That was over 40 some years ago.”

#2 “Virginia is an incredibly wealthy state… but there’s no other state in the nation that has such extremes in healthcare or disparities between the have and have nots in the state of Virginia.”

#3 “You can’t do this work and really not be changed… My dad was a coal miner… I remember when I was a little girl he would tie a belt around his leg so that he did not feel that pain… I just do it from that aspect of helping another.”

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