Richard
It is now midnight and we finally have our team tucked into their beds at the Sheyuwe Hotel in Kakamega Kenya. We had a long hard trip from Nairobi to Kakamega. I had no idea that they had ripped up 15 miles of the road from Kisumu to Kakamega and, […]
Hello Again Dear Friends from the Eastern edge of Nairobi. Day two of our Kayole camp has gone very well. Dr Phil was quite pleased that very few of the patients here seem to have the major diseases that so often kill people: Cholera and Typhoid. Kayole is a slum […]
I am sitting the sanctuary of the Kayole PEFA Church watching the people move up through line to get their vitals taken and then to see a doctor. At present we have number of free services in the camp: Doctors Exams, Eye Exams (with free reading glasses), Voluntary AIDS, Malaria, […]
News From Our Medical Camp I was telling the team yesterday that one day in Kenya is like a week. The reason for this is “sensory overload”. As you drive through the country everything that you see is unusual and out of the ordinary. Some things are just beyond belief. […]
The old song says “If we never had a problem, we wouldn’t know that God could solve them”. Well we had a problem! The ultrasound machine came to the camp in great shape, but when we turned it on there was a power surge that burned a section of the […]
Monday August 19, 2013 Nairobi Kenya It is now 3pm in the afternoon and our doctors have seen almost 800 people. The facilities of the South B PEFA Church are absolutely perfect for medical camp. We are about 100 yards from a major slum area where the people have great […]
Sunday August 18, 2013 Nairobi Kenya: The work begins: After 22 hours of flying our team arrived at the Nairobi airport. As you may have heard, last week, there was a major fire at the airport , which destroyed the international arrival section of the airport. We had heard that […]
Hello Dear Friends: I’m off to Kenya on Friday the 16th with 7 other people for our Medical Camps. While I am there I will be sending back a “daily briefing” for all those who would like to hear about what is happening. I don’t want to presume on any […]
Of the many projects that we are involved in Kenya, our children’s feeding program in the slums of Nairobi are the dearest to our heart. Each day we feed 385 children one meal a day. In addition to the meal they are taught literacy and bible stories and looked after […]