We arrived to find a well organized set up: marquee, table and chairs at Kuba school. An official welcoming/opening ceremony with representatives from the Government, church and surrounding villages, a local Dr, as well as Nigel for the water sanitation project. All gave speeches which proved to be a lengthy process but we felt truly welcomed. Once we began clinic, however, it was an incredibly busy day, with us seeing over 500 people. We identified quite a few cases of the dreaded Jigger’s: a very nasty parasitic skin infestation, which tends to isolate the affected people as they’re ostracized from their community. Only late last year 3 people had died from septicemia, due to jiggers. Tomorrow after clinic, we’ll be training the community health workers, how to treat those affected with this malady.4pm we finally closed the clinic, exhausted but satisfied at how many people had been able to be seen. More assistance from the local leaders in keeping the people waiting to be treating in orderly queues will be requested for tomorrow’s clinic. Other cases that stood out: a 2 year old girl that had been seizuring for over a year. A mother with a nasty leg ulcer –deep [...]

Early start had been planned, but as we all know, nothing goes according to plan. We began our trip 2 hours late due to car trouble, and picked up wonderful Rosemary (a local nurse and valuable member of our team) along the way. Through her connections we were able to travel via a road block/short cut. It was a terribly rough road but it saved us approximately 2 hours time. Praise God! Saw many strange and wonderful sights along the way: a coffin on a motorbike, women carrying all sorts of loads, even bricks on their heads (one had 8/9 bricks on her head!) a fine tea plantation which went for miles, many towns big and small, all with colourful characters. Finally arrived 4.30pm to Villa Hotel in Siaya –a 1 star accommodation with 1st class service-one night=1,200shillings: including buffet breakfast and dinner. Then we went into town to buy water and supplies. Lyle had difficulty trying to purchase condys crystals (which would be ideal as part of our Jigger’s eradication program that we’re going to implement). Back at the Villa hotel, we had the pleasure of meeting the rest of Nigel’s water sanitation project team: locals; Olita, Opondo and [...]