Thankfully our schedule has gotten much busier over the last week and we have been doing a lot of work in the community. Since my last blog about the giraffes and elephants, we spent a day in an orphanage doing medical examinations on the children and providing medications there and also just playing with the beautiful children. We also spent a day in Kibera, which is the largest slum in all of Africa and sits in the middle of Nairobi. We worked with a ministry there and made house visits to HIV positive Kenyans. We prayed over them and just spent time with them and it was amazing the stories we heard, we definately got a taste of real poverty which is quite disturbing and frustrating. Many of those with HIV are also widowed or their husbands have ran away. they live in very small shacks, often without electricity and have a very strong social stigma which makes it hard to have strong relationships which is very emotionally hurtful since by nature they are extremely relational people.


We spent 2 days in Kijabe a smaller town with a missionary hospital where I was blessed to shadow a plastic surgeon as he repaired a man's completely fractured mandible and in the afternoon i volunteered in the women's ward taking vitals. The hospital was very beautiful (although defnately not on the same level as the U.S.) and was not at all what I was expecting to see after my last trip. The next day in Kijabe we spent at an orphange called "Naomi's Village". I would definately encourage you to look this up online as it just brought me to tears to see. A couple from Dallas TX started this orphanage this year and in it they show tremendous grace to orphans, bringing them out of slums and out of terrible situations and putting them in a stunning home with real wooden floors, an actual roof over their head (not tin sheets with holes in them), HOT showers (almost unheard of here in daily living) and flush toilets...and most importantly THREE meals a day and access to education. I was almost in tears during the tour, i think this will change lives here and the hope is that by showing them such grace, that they will grow up with self confidnce and know that they want more for their kids and for their friends and so will be active members of community.

We are now in Litein which is near the Uganda border. We will be here all week and our working in a local hospital each day. Please pray that we will learn a lot and be of use to the people we are trying to serve and develop meaningful relationships. Until next time!!