Ready for Departure – Mission 2023: Post Pandemic
As we finalize our packing, review our checklists, sit on that suitcase to get it closed....our team is in the final stretches of readying themselves for departure, and are extremely…
2023 Mission
The final countdown is on for our 2023 Mission. Merely 3 more sleeps until we depart. Are we excited??? Heck yes!! Some trepidation? Probably. After 3 years of not being…
CNFA Wine Fundraiser 2021
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*New Project Alert* CNFA’s COVID-19 Food Distribution Program
On Monday, June 29th, CNFA launched the COVID-19 Food Distribution Program in our communities around Vihiga. Thank you so much for your donations, and a special shout out to our…
Clinic Day 11 – Hamadira – Izava South
Our last day! This morning the tables turned and we sang and danced for the people of Kenya before clinic - with our lead singer Harriet. It was a very…
Clinic Day 10 – Homanoywa – Izava North
Today we transferred a 60 year old lady with an injured ankle to the hospital. Marie and Karen dewormed over 300 students at the primary school. Kenyan nurses Roselyne and…
Clinic Day 9 – Kedohi – West Maragoli
Our clinic today was in the same yard as an elementary school so we had a lot of children running around, we even tried to teach them how to do…
Clinic Day 8 – Viyalo – Chavakali
Today Laura, Harriet and I went to the school next door to deworm many children from kindergarten to grade 8. We had three of the cutest albino children at the…
Clinic Day 7 – Chavakali
Happy Nurses Week! Here we are doing what we do best - playing cards. After a well deserved day off, it was hard to get up this morning - I…
“What direction are we going?” “South north”
Since it was our day off, we split up into two groups - half of us went to the Kakamega rainforest and the other half to the crying stone and…
Clinic Day 6 – Igunga – Chavakali
We were dropping like flies today - three members of our dream team had to stay back from clinic because they were sick but at least they had the toilet…
Clinic Day 5 – Kigama – North Maragoli
Today’s clinic started off a little slow but by the afternoon we had a huge wave of people come through, as well as another torrential downpour. At one point Jeff…
Clinic Day 4 – Wangulu – West Maragoli
Nancy and Kristen went on a home visit to treat an elderly lady who had a severe case of jiggers. On the way back they got their monthly workout in…
Clinic Day 3 – Chavuli Pag Wodanga
Today Meaghan, Hilary and Johnstone went to three homes for jiggers treatments where they sprayed down the homes and clothing of the families and soaked their hands and feet in…
Clinic Day 2 – Budaywa – Basali East
Laura and I slept in Kenya’s finest waterbeds last night after we left the windows open during dinner and a torrential downpour flooded our room. Today Harriet and Johnstone went…
Clinic Day 1 – Isitsi Salvation Army Izava South
We started our day one of clinics in the village of where Solomon greeted us with song and prayer as he does every morning. Marie and Nancy had their first experience…
“I’ll have the vegetable curry for dinner – something new and different”
Today Karen was off to a good start when she locked herself in her room, unable to find her key and then had no running water to shower or even…
“I was worried about the bus at the Rosa Mystica”
Jambo! Well, after 22+ hours of planes, trains and automobiles (thank you gravol courtesy of Nancy and wine courtesy of Lufthansa airlines for making me feel like Annie from bridesmaids…
Final Numbers for 2018 Mission
Hey everyone! As promised, here is the final count for the total number of people seen and treated through the 11 days of clinics of the 2018 mission. We saw…
Last Day of Clinics – Day 11 at Hamadira
When the water works hit you like a tonne of bricks. I’m happy to report that I wasn’t the only one crying on the last day of clinics this year.…
Clinic Day 10 at Homanoywa
When I say north you say pole! Solomon started off our morning with a prayer where he thanked his friends from “the North Pole.” We had a good laugh to…
Clinic Day 9 at Kedohi
Today school was back in session and Laura and Krista dewormed 200 kids and went from classroom to classroom at a school and gave Whitfield’s anti-fungal cream to each child.…
Clinic Day 8 at Viyalo
Today Gail went on a home visit to follow up with a lady who had thyroid surgery done last week - she is recovering and doing very well thanks to…
Clinic Day 7 at Chavakali
Ingrid, Johnstone, Victor and Sara went on a home visit to assess an elderly woman named Gladys. She had a stroke 5 years ago and has since become very weak…
Clinic Day 6 at Igungu
As today was Saturday, it was a shorter day for our clinic. We treated a total of 407 people in about 5 hours. …
Clinic Day Five at Kigama
Our fifth day of clinics at Kigama has been the busiest one so far with a total of 657 people seen. 35 pairs of reading glasses were given, 40 young…
Clinic Day Four at Wangulu
If you’re asking what this picture is about I’ll tell you. Normally we leave at 7am for clinic but this morning Lynn…
Clinic Day Three at Mudungu
Barb and Patti did a home visit with Johnson and treated a family of 5 for jiggers. Jiggers is a type of sand flea here in certain parts of Kenya…
Clinic Day Two at Budaywa – Basali East
Lynn, Krista and our Kenyan nurse Sarah gave quite the laugh to 30 young girls while teaching sexual health and handing out reusable sanitary pads. …
Clinic Day One at Itegero – Basali West
Day one of clinics started off in true Kenyan time - pole pole (slowly slowly) as they say in Swahili. Because of the upcoming election, it was around 930am by…
Journey to Kisumu – Shaken not Stirred
The roadie to Kisumu started off in luxury - Jeff and Jerry picked us up at the Sheywe in the shiniest matatu we’d ever…
11 women, 200 suitcases
Jambo! The day has officially arrived, we’ve touched down in Kenya. All 11 of us and what feels like 1200lbs of supplies that we’re…
Clinic #11 – Hamadira, May 5/17
It doesn't seem real to me that the end can already be upon us. I feel like I blinked and this mission was already on its final moments. It was…
Clinic #10 – Homanoywa, May 4/17
May the fourth be with you. I can honestly say I have never felt holier than standing on an alter handing out medications to those in need. That was definitely…
Clinic #9 – Kedohi, May 3/17
Rocked up to another clinic where the line up of people was so long that it extended off the property of the church we were working out of. To know…
Clinic #8 – Viyalo, May 2/17
Arriving to clinic to see a line of more than 50 people already waiting outside is just a slightly daunting start to the day. However, with the help of Solomon…
Clinic #7 – Chavakali, May 1/17
Solomon had a new rendition of his daily song that included us clapping in excitement for all the different ailments that could possibly affect a person and cause them to…
Clinic #6 – Igunga, April 29/17
April showers, bring May flowers has never been a more appropriate saying than to describe today. When our Kenyan guides talked about there only being two seasons (the wet and…
Clinic #5 – Kigama, April 28/17
By the end of this mission, we are going to be almost/sort of/semi-fluent in a few choice words in Swahili. I don't know if our Kenyan nurses are more excited…
Clinic #4 – Wangulu, April 27/17
There is nothing quite like having your own personal hype man to generate such an uplifting and positive energy to start off the day. Solomon is truly a rockstar. He…
Clinic #3 – Mundungu, April 26/17
By day 3, we were a well oiled machine, loading the van, setting up and starting with minimal fusses. Everyday started with an introduction to the community leaders, a song…
Clinic #2 – Budaywa, April 25/17
Hello from the other side. It appears that I have survived! Clinic #2 was a mystery to me, but the others gave me the breakdown of the day. To start…
Clinic #1 – Inegero, April 24/17
Unfortunately, some of us were not off to a great start this morning. While I stayed home and puked my guts out, the rest of CNFA was off touching the…
Kakamega/Kisumu – April 23/17
Jambo!! Breakfast lead to some very interesting discoveries: 1) if someone offers you something called arrow root, do not accept 2) if you do, be prepared for it to look…
Nairobi to Kakamega – April 22/17
(Sorry guys! Had some technical difficulties getting the blog up and running so be prepared as I play catch up to present time!) Welcome to Nairobi!!! If anything, I…
Clinic Day Eleven – Hamadira
Well, this is it. It's bittersweet really. We are tired. We miss our families. We look forward to heading home to Canada. But, every one of us will miss Africa. …
Clinic Day Ten – Homunoywa
Welcome to Homunoywa clinic. Yes, I had to write that name approximately 500 times. I'm finally starting to get used to writing consonants and vowels together in unusual combinations. I…
Clinic Day 9 – Kedoli
Welcome to Kedoli! We set up clinic beside a school, where Lynn taught her class. Jerry and Nina also went through the school, class by class, and treated ringworm. I…
