Stories and Updates From Our Work in Kenya

Rural landscape with trees and dry terrain.

By US Kenya Health Partners | 07/17/2013
July 9 2013 Today we visited sand dams to learn how they work and the...
Mother and child in brick-walled room

Mtoto Elizabeth

By US Kenya Health Partners | 01/17/2012
Baby Elizabeth and mom This is Elizabeth Mutheu Mbunda and she is a now healthy...
Happy child in green dress with woman

Little Naomi

By US Kenya Health Partners | 01/09/2012
Naomi and her mother at the outreach January 2012 After having busy monthly outreach on...
Kids playing in muddy water

Happy Holidays!

By US Kenya Health Partners | 01/03/2012
A group of boys playing in a river bedMutinda, CHW, and Wambua, small child with...
Woman assisting child in clinic

Afya (Health)

By US Kenya Health Partners | 09/26/2011
CHWs enjoying the outreachChild with severe malnutrition that presented to the outreach On Saturday Sept...
Couple holding sleeping infant

Back in Kisesini!

By US Kenya Health Partners | 09/18/2011
CHW Mutinda with mother and baby, DamarisMutinda and ndulo (the driver) on our walk to...
Health check in rural setting

Infant losing weight, goes for supplement

By US Kenya Health Partners | 08/07/2011
Weighing the baby is part of diagnosis 6 Aug 2011 by Katie Chisholm, Kathryn Chinn,...
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Man unable to speak for 5 months, diabetes, other cases

By US Kenya Health Partners | 08/06/2011
Friday Aug 5 2011. Rifka Stern, MD Today started out slow but got busier and...
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Extremely malnourished child, victim of poverty and drought

By US Kenya Health Partners | 08/03/2011
Aug 3 2011. Late in the day we were called to the clinic to see...
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Circumcision clinic for pre-adolescent boys

By US Kenya Health Partners | 07/31/2011
Saturday was very different than expected. I (Rifka) thought I would have a rest day...
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Kamba Basket Co-op shows wares

By US Kenya Health Partners | 07/31/2011
Sunday 31 July . Finally  a rest day. I (Rifka) tried to sleep in but...
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Visit the poor, learn about water, clinical impressions

By US Kenya Health Partners | 07/29/2011
Fri July 29. Evening time. We are mostly outside. One of the MPH students is...
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Baraza, a community meeting

By US Kenya Health Partners | 07/28/2011
Baraza, a community meeting When the community comes together to make a decision or plan...
Woman with baby on dusty path

Mother of Seven, has home, little else

By US Kenya Health Partners | 07/28/2011
Mwalimu is forty-one years old.  She  has seven children under the age of ten. They...
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First day in Kenyan Clinic: wide variety of cases

By US Kenya Health Partners | 07/26/2011
Rifka’s note.   7/24/11 I worked in the clinic all day. It was slow getting started...