From the team leader

Here are some more highlights of what we will be doing while in Kenya from our team leader Marjaana:  The annual Women's Conference usually draws 300-400  women, who have been asking about the upcoming conference since February! There will be lots of singing and dancing, laughter and even tears, as we share our life experiences and discuss their requested topic of Coping with Stress - approaching it from the spiritual perspective as well as from the clinical side.
 
The mobile medical clinics have expanded even further. This year we have several doctors and nurses in our team in addition to our partner doctors from Switzerland, U.K., Uganda and from elsewhere in Kenya joining our hosting medical community in Kitale town. It is very exciting to see the collaborative efforts bearing fruit! We will facilitate the clinics in two slums, a church (our orphans and guardians) and a small team will treat a remote village. Many of the people have never seen a doctor before, as they live on less than $2 a day, so there is no money to go seek medical care anywhere. Thousands will be receiving free treatment - and hope in knowing that somebody cares about them. Many have testified that they feel that God has answered their prayer by sending us from the other side of the world to help them.
 
Our doctors will also do a health seminar for the Kenyan health care workers. The social workers will have their own training meetings with their Kenyan counterparts and the teachers will volunteer in a school. I will be meeting with a potential future president of Kenya about the success and expansion of our community development programs, which I am very excited about. Just hoping for his favorable word when our Kenyan chapter is applying for government grants there. At least he is interested enough to discuss it!