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Words from the President

By Canadian Nurses For Africa On May 10, 2014 · 1 Comment
We are on our way home from beautiful Kenya and the people of whom we have grown so fond, after another successful mission. What a great team! Thank you so much to our Kenyan nurses and Clinical Officers who worked so hard to make every clinic run like clockwork. You are awesome and I look [...]
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Friday, May 9, 2014: The finale

By Canadian Nurses For Africa On May 9, 2014 · Add Comment
Well, we almost made a record of having no transportation issues through this whole mission until this morning! We had our annual flat tire on the way to clinic but thanks to our fabulous driver, it didn’t stall us for long. A busy clinic at Hamadira where we saw over 700 people, dewormed the school, [...]
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Our fabulous team

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A testimony

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Gail and Jane

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Thursday, May 8, 2014

By Canadian Nurses For Africa On May 9, 2014 · 1 Comment
Today clinic was at Hamunoywa (don’t ask us to pronounce this!). We felt fortunate to arrive on time as we passed two large trucks overturned in ditches due to the heavy rainfalls Kenya has been having. I don’t know how the people live with this daily with using bikes, motorcycles or walking along these muddy [...]
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Hamunoywa

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Clinic today

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Clinical officers

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Inside clinic

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Sucking my sister’s thumb

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Lunch

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Showing off their new bags

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Pads

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Sexual health classroom

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Sexual health group

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Boys’ latrine

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Old latrines

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Compost latrines

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Wednesday, May 7, 2014

By Canadian Nurses For Africa On May 7, 2014 · 1 Comment
I really don’t know where to begin for this clinic! It started with arriving to a long lineup and ended with seeing 814 patients. Kedohi is a very impoverished community evident by the pictures of the latrines at the schools. We had a lot of sick children come in. As I was triaging I was [...]
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Canadian Team 2014

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Sick child

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Priscilla’s wound care station

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Diana and Monica

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Kedohi latrines

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Beatrice and Becca

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Cars everywhere

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Viyalo

By Canadian Nurses For Africa On May 6, 2014 · 2 Comments
We had a great clinic at Viyalo today. We started off by meeting with our Kenyan advisory board which consists of the Kisumu and Kakamega team leaders, a clinical officer and our community health worker. One of the nurses and a clinical officer had a great suggestion of providing some health teaching to the patients [...]
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Tuesday, May 6, 2014

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Med table

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Becca and the princess

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Shoes

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Clinic lineup

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Priscilla’s fan club

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Sexual health

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Pads!

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Triage

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School deworming

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Clinics

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Photo books

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Chavakali

By Canadian Nurses For Africa On May 5, 2014 · Add Comment
It’s the second week of the mission and we started at Chavakali where we have been in previous years due to the high needs there. The children are back in school this week so we are able to run programs in the school. You will see Monica deworming the students which was approximately 500 children. [...]
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Monday, May 5, 2014

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Robeez

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Drive-thru triage

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Packing it in

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Itegero

By Canadian Nurses For Africa On May 3, 2014 · 1 Comment
Well I woke out of a deep sleep by a scream and the first thing I thought was “Oh those Ugandan soccer players are partying again” then I realized it came from Monica and Becca’s room. I rushed in to find Gail standing on a table trying to capture a bird that had flown into [...]
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The children we see

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Friday, May 3, 2014

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