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| Another home on St Joe's compound adjacent to our place-taken during afternoon rainstorm |
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| Dining room of our place with Kate looking on from bedroom |
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| Terence & Tristan on back steps of house the students stay at next door to our place. This is also where we eat our meals. |
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| Outside our house during that afternoon rainstorm |
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| Our shower-it has electric heating element we turn on before we take a shower |
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| We're able to wash our clothes in basin in the bathtub, then hang to dry on the clothes line btw the 2 houses |
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| We have GREAT sunsets-this is one looking west of our home |
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| St Joseph Umbo Mission Hospital-main courtyard showing multiple bldgs connected by breezeways |
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| Sign at hospital entrance listing services available |
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| Part of our Ray of Hope group including physicians, PA students, premed student & Mr. Barassa, the ROH Kenya Projects Coordinator (who is Amazing!) |
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| Talking with a dentist from Sweden who's volunteering for 6 weeks. His young patient was one he screened at a local school the previous day who's come in for a more complete exam & treatment |
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| Our Kiswahili class with Rosebella, our excellent teacher from a local shcool |
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| Patient rounds on pediatric unit |
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| Pediatric rounds-Dr John examing a young patient |
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| One of many health ed posters we've seen at both hospitals & the Bware clinic |
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| One wall in the peds unit at St Joseph Umbo Mission Hospital |
Slept soundly last night after making sure the mosquito netting was tucked in securely all around our bed. Read a little before falling asleep from "Say you're one of them" by Uwem Akpan, a collection of stories of children in Africa. loaned to me by a friend at Clark County Public Health who lived in Kenya for 6 mos a few years ago. Noticed yesterday I'm feeling more comfortable & less overwhelmed by the all the differences I'm experiencing here-language, culture, poverty being 3 of the biggest differences. This morning we go to Bware where I don't know if we'll have electricity, so wanted to post a few more photos, especially of our housing & the 2 hospitals we've visited here in Migori. Will try to post more of Bware when I have another chance.
Thank you for the pics, glad to see where you are. It's also good to hear that you're getting over feeling overwhelmed by it all.
ReplyDeleteJambo James and Kate,
ReplyDeleteWonderful to read about and see pictures of your Kenya experiences. Admire you both for donating your time and expertise to such a worthy cause. Makes me want to return to that beautiful part of the world.