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Keen soon will be posting her complete narrative (with photos) on the accomplishments of our May/June service trip to Kenya.  As a preview, here are some abbreviated highlights:

Another successful free 2-day medical camp was organized and staffed by Harambee graduates and students.  Held in Mukuru slum (Nairobi), over 400 clients were served including more than 25 children.  We offered important new screening and education sessions this year.

More than 20 high-yield dairy goats -–personally named by their donors—were distributed to clients of Upendo Village in Naivasha, along with dozens of chickens also provided by donors .

Brown dolls and toy cars were gifted at a home for orphans and abandoned children in Kawangware,  and to children of mothers in Lan’gata Womens Prison.  At the prison we also gave donated underwear, knitting supplies, and hundreds of bars of soap purchased from our supported project in Kerugoya.

Our annual trip to the School for the Blind in Thika included a special performance from the band using instruments donated from prior visits.

We interviewed and accepted two new students for our Grow A Doc program.

We distributed dozens of donated men’s neckties to students, & lots of jewelry to our craft group for reworking into new treasures.

Also new this year was a visit to Karen Training Institute for the Deaf, where two of our graduates are learning African Sign Language to better serve their patients.

A somber visit was made to Makadara Court in Nairobi to successfully defend one of our students falsely accused of theft.  Quite an experience, never to be repeated, we expect!

And of course we brought back great items from our supported projects:  local honey from beehives in Nyumbani Village and Kerugoya. Also soapstone items from western Kenya.

Our wonderful travel companions, Doris and Rob, enjoyed an R&R trip to Mombasa that including a camel ride and snorkeling in the Indian Ocean.