Our Travels

January 13 Todays blog is written by Claire a student in college exploring how she might serve in Kenya during gap years before medical school. Today, we traveled into the surrounding villages of Maua to visit children with orthopedic issues. It’s hard to process the...

January 12 Good evening. We left Chogoria this morning and arrived for lunch at Maua. Here we met a group of professors and students working at integrating the laboratory clinicians with medical clinicians. We then went to the Disabled Children Center which is next to...

January 11 Good afternoon . Today was the first orthopedic surgery clinic I have participated in for quite awhile. As always, in terms of difficult cases this clinic was no different, although there wasn’t anything I haven’t seen before. Most of the problems were the...

January 10 Good morning. There is not much happening today. There is no orthopedic clinic or surgeries today. I paid a visit to the operating room to check on its function. It works well and the nurses expressed their gratitude for the new operating rooms that your...

We started the day at chapel, which was inspiring. Introducing us the CEO of the hospital mentioned how much we have helped the hospital and reinforced that idea when we met for our review meeting. The operating rooms built have been a wonderful help. The equipment...

January 8 We arrived safely and on time in Nairobi last night. No matter how you consider it, it is a long trip. Jet lag makes sleeping the first night difficult. We got up this morning for a good breakfast and we’re on the road by 10 am. We made a stop to get a new...