KENYA

We packed for Kenya this week.  We put together 14 totes full of medical supplies.  There will be 6 physicians, 10 nurses and 2 ancillary personnel traveling together to Nairobi, then to Naivasha, Kenya to work in a new women's hospital built by a group of Nebraskans.  They have brought Kenyans to Nebraska to train and work on training them there.
I'll have the opportunity to work with a local Otolaryngologist and helping in whatever way I can.  John will be working on the stove project modeled after the project used by HELPS International (the group we went with to Guatemala last year).  The idea is to built stoves to contain the fires in homes, decrease smoke inhalation, decrease burn injuries and decrease time spent gathering wood.  It also helps protect the environment as it uses much less wood and with less time gathering wood and tending a fire the children can attend school and parents can be more productive with their time. Watch the YouTube video Stove project  It helps in so many ways.  The stoves are inexpensive and efficient.  I've included a link to YouTube that explains the project.  It is out of Guatemala but the same principle we will be using in Kenya.  NN