Unlikely Friends in Africa’s Biggest Slum
February 6, 2020
There’s something amazing about watching people who society assumes should be enemies work together as friends and allies instead.
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Meet the amazing people transforming healthcare for some of the world's poorest patients
Change-makers Mary and Joseph leave comfortable lives, move to slum, open clinic, school, orphanage
January 23, 2020
Last week, I had the pleasure of hosting three members of the team from Cana Family Health Care Center – one of our clients – at our home in Kijabe. Cana has been switching over to Banda from paper.
Friends who gave up and changed their world
December 22, 2019
I am old enough to know now that, behind all the sweet stories and pageants of this holiday season, there is a Christmas story reality that gets some people to give up their plans for finding peace and security in life and pursue something bigger but less comfortable.
Love Does What It Takes
November 20, 2019
A nurse, with a half-dead woman strapped to her back with a bedsheet, riding a motorcycle through the woods in the pitch-black night…
When people trust the untrained neighborhood “doctor”
November 1, 2019
– and you are a real, licensed healthcare provider trying to take care of your patients.
A Tale of Two Kenyan Cities
October 17, 2019
The Mukuru slum is home to over half a million people. Walking down Mukuru’s dirt streets, you see people everywhere — shopping, visiting, working, eating, and sleeping. The lively atmosphere is not necessarily what you would expect to see in an underprivileged living settlement.