This is a special day
This is a special day. Aggrey arranged for a 14 person van to pick us up from St Anna’s and to take us to Leo Chemist to meet an old friend and to pick up our medication. 48 boxes of medication was waiting for us. This is where all the donations go….it is better than gold to the sick. The van was packed to the roof with 44 of the boxes and Johnstone, a trusted community worker, accompanied the driver with the boxes to Kakamega. This is truly the start of our mission. Naturally, the driver of the van tried to renegotiate the fee as we had “overloaded” the van. He managed to squeeze a little more from Aggrey, as was to be expected, then off down the highway. Sara Otemo, who has worked with us for the past four years, met us outside the Kisumu District Hospital, and arranged to give us a tour. We told security that we were nurses from Canada and we there as Sara’s visitors. Jane, who worked with us two years ago, assisted with the tour as Sara was working Saturday afternoon. Touring the hospital was like two worlds had collided. We had stepped back in time to a…