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…