Reubenson, 13, doesn't seem to notice that he's wearing a girl's shirt, complete with pink ribbons. His mother says her son, very small for his age, woke up one day with a stiff neck and shoulders. He can't look up. His knees ache all the time. But he didn't have a fever.

Sometimes she has to carry him on her back because he can't walk.

It's not hard for nurse Kathleen Acree to diagnose arthritis. And that's something she can help, at least temporarily. She offers ibuprofen.

Char, 9, can't move or walk. Her right leg has bad contractions. When Acree looks closely, she sees inflamed, crusty eyes and cracked and broken skin. The child used to go to school, but now she can't. She has thrush, anemia, a heart murmur. She hardly eats.

Acree ties 50 Advil pills into a rubber glove and gives it to the mother, then calls Randle for a consultation. Heather Read, a physical therapist in the Salt Lake City School District, says that, for the shape she's in, the girl should be eating everything she can find.

"The reality is, we're going to see lots of people like this, and we can't work them up the way they should be," Randle tells the team. "We can do what we can do."

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The numbers roll past. Two young couples, Dave (Jeff's little brother) and Lindsey Randle and Kory and Victoria Klein are part of the support staff. They work the courtyard, getting names and writing down initial complaints. They also help with care. Kory Klein's appointed himself a playmate, entertaining the children with toys, staging mock wars with action figures to distract them. Dave Randle fills occasional spare minutes handing out stickers to the kids. When the day ends, he'll be surrounded by children on the street. If he could, he said, he'd take every one of them home.

It gets hotter and hotter, and Healing Hands team members guzzle bagged water. But they keep working. They see a woman who has blood in her urine and a staph infection. A child with club foot. They talk about setting up some sort of X-ray voucher system as they examine Marie, 7, who has a hard lump on her lower spine. She needs an X-ray nearly as much as she needs food.

A woman with a leg ulcer is told to come to the clinic Friday and Randle will excise it.

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Healing Hands for Haiti is a lot more than a series of clinics. It's a year-round crusade. Although the volunteers cover their own expenses and a great number of the supplies are donated, it's expensive. There's a salary for Gina Duncan and the rental on the clinic. There are supplies that haven't been donated, from the paint for the clinic to the bedding that goes in the guest house on the top floor.

Fund-raisers in Utah help pay those expenses, but there's not enough to pay the group's director, Becky Kurumada, even a small salary.