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Save the Date! Join us March 2, 2019 for The 8th Annual CNFA Out of Africa Gala!

By Canadian Nurses For Africa On September 26, 2018 · 1 Comment
 
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7th Annual CNFA Gala – Out of Africa – Feb 17 2018

By Canadian Nurses For Africa On November 9, 2017 · Add Comment
Save the Date for the 7th Annual CNFA Gala Out of Africa February 17, 2018 Cocktail Reception @ 5:00pm Dinner @ 6:30 pm OE Banquet & Conference Centre 2245 Speers Road Oakville, Ontario Tickets are $80 per person until February 1, 2018 After February 1, 2018, Tickets will be $90 per person. For Tickets Contact [...]
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Clinic #11 – Hamadira, May 5/17

By Canadian Nurses For Africa On May 7, 2017 · 1 Comment
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 a very bittersweet day, knowing that everything was coming to an end but also trying to relish in the last day [...]
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Clinic #10 – Homanoywa, May 4/17

By Canadian Nurses For Africa On May 4, 2017 · 3 Comments
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 a first. We were working out of a very small Catholic Church that made for tight quarters for registering, triaging patients, seeing the doctor and [...]
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Clinic #9 – Kedohi, May 3/17

By Canadian Nurses For Africa On May 3, 2017 · Add Comment
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 that all of these people are patiently waiting for us to come and help them, with no complaints about wait times or when they are [...]
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Clinic #8 – Viyalo, May 2/17

By Canadian Nurses For Africa On May 2, 2017 · 2 Comments
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 to get the crowd going, we were put in right mindset to start chugging along. The clinic started at a realitively [...]
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Clinic #7 – Chavakali, May 1/17

By Canadian Nurses For Africa On May 2, 2017 · Add Comment
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 seek treatment: head, chest, heart, belly, bowels, etc. He sure knows how to really get the crowd going. Everyday at the [...]
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Clinic #6 – Igunga, April 29/17

By Canadian Nurses For Africa On April 30, 2017 · 2 Comments
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 the dry), I wasn’t quite expecting a torrential downpour through the night into the next morning. Holy moly. Due to the rain, we ended up [...]
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Clinic #5 – Kigama, April 28/17

By Canadian Nurses For Africa On April 28, 2017 · 1 Comment
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 when we remember specific words, or they just think our pronounciation is hysterical, but we have been getting some good responses at the clinics in [...]
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Clinic #4 – Wangulu, April 27/17

By Canadian Nurses For Africa On April 28, 2017 · Add Comment
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 gets the community psyched to see us, and us incredibly excited to start seeing patients! There is nothing quite like chanting, clapping, singing and praising [...]
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Clinic #3 – Mundungu, April 26/17

By Canadian Nurses For Africa On April 26, 2017 · 1 Comment
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 and a prayer, to bless the day and all the people taking part in it. We rotated [...]
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Clinic #2 – Budaywa, April 25/17

By Canadian Nurses For Africa On April 26, 2017 · Add Comment
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 off, I had my first interaction with Solomon, CNFA’s number one fan. No one gets as jazzed about us being here [...]
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Clinic #1 – Inegero, April 24/17

By Canadian Nurses For Africa On April 26, 2017 · Add Comment
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 lives of the community of Inegero. Here is a rendition of what I have been told. The first timers of the [...]
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Kakamega/Kisumu – April 23/17

By Canadian Nurses For Africa On April 25, 2017 · Add Comment
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 like a purple potato, be the texture of spaghetti squash and generally taste like cardboard. But hey, when in Kenya, do as the Kenyans do. [...]
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Nairobi to Kakamega – April 22/17

By Canadian Nurses For Africa On April 25, 2017 · Add Comment
  (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 have realized that Kenyan time is much like island time…relaxed. An 8 am start rarely means 8 am, and more often than not we stop [...]
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Sixth Annual Gala

By Canadian Nurses For Africa On January 19, 2017 · 1 Comment
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Save The Date

By Canadian Nurses For Africa On November 10, 2014 · Add Comment
Save the Date for CNFA’s Fourth Annual Gala. Click the link for the PDF version CNFA_SavetheDate2015_Proof R1
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September 23, 2012 – Fundraising

By Canadian Nurses For Africa On October 9, 2012 · Add Comment
Canadian Nurses for Africa first Run Like a Kenyan event, in support of our ongoing health initiatives in Kenya, was held at the beautiful Rockwood Conservation Area in Rockwood, Ontario. It was a gorgeous fall day and we had a a great turnout. Twenty eight children participated in the free 1 km kiddie run and [...]
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Wheelchairs and Fundraisers

By Canadian Nurses For Africa On September 13, 2012 · Add Comment
Dear friends and family. Canadian Nurses for Africa is pleased to let you know that we have had 5 wheelchairs and 1 pair of crutches delivered to patients we treated while in Kenya in May 2012. Some of these people had been struggling with their disability for years. What a wonderful gift of increased mobility [...]
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Home Visit

By Canadian Nurses For Africa On May 8, 2012 · Add Comment
Greetings to all of you in Canada and thank you for your support while we are here. This past Saturday, I had the privilege of doing a home visit to a patient unable to come to the clinic. This gentleman is 50 years old and suffered a stroke due to HTN. Hypertension is endemic in [...]
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The Face of Kenya

By Canadian Nurses For Africa On May 7, 2012 · Add Comment
This little boy’s smile will be forever imprinted in my mind. He will always be in my heart. I knew from thesecond I laid eyes on him that he was very ill and suffering from severe malnutrition. And yet he smiled-a wide toothy smile. As I assessed him, I noticed the muscle wasting, the sunken [...]
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Sexual Health Clinics

By Canadian Nurses For Africa On May 7, 2012 · Add Comment
I have talked about some of the medical issues in Kenya, but another component of our clinics is sexual health teachings. In Kenya, the man often works away from home. As monogamy isn’t the rule in this culture, the men are having other sexual partners then are coming home and having sex with their wives. [...]
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