From Lawyer To Missionary: Carrie, Kenya and You

Wednesday, May 1   KENYAN LABOR DAY - public holiday We had the meeting for people interested in working as volunteers with the pregnancy crises center today. It was a good turn out for a public holiday and we have some very key people that came and we are looking forward to getting the trainings going.  Good turn out and very engaging discussion on how to approach the prevention issues and other things. Got a chance to look through Jane Jalani's paperwork and talk with here about how to structure the paperwork for this venture and that went very well.  I forgot to mention on Sunday, we got a chance to meet someone that has the same vision of building a pregnancy crises center in Bamburi, an area just outside Mombasa.  It is in the same county as Mombasa. She already has a start of a building. She has the first floor just about finished and we would like to add two more floors. She also has a preschool started on the property though it meets under a tin roof that has a lot of holes

Kenya, Adoption, Carrie and You: Hospitals are so sad Pray for cooperation from ... : Tuesday, april 30, 2013 Today was exhausting but when we look back, we did not do a whole lot.  We started off going into the public hos...

Tuesday, april 30, 2013 Today was exhausting but when we look back, we did not do a whole lot.  We started off going into the public hospital here in Mombasa, Coast General.  I hate hospitals even at home so this was outside my comfort zone totally. Judy was kind enough to get us into the Children's Ward and the Children's Cancer ward. She works with an organization called PACK that goes into the community to find kids that need the cancer treatments they focus on and brings them to the hospitals and pays for all the drugs.  The parents only need to pay for the bed in the hospitals and they work with them to try to reduce the rate for that. There was one little boy in there and he had a tumor in his right checks so bad that his eye was turned inside and you could only see white. It was 10X the size of the other check when he started treatment and he was through a few weeks of treatment already and it was reduced to maybe 4X the other check now. The ward beds were very dirty