Journey Map

This is my attempt to give you a physical idea of where our team went, so that when I refer to a place, you will have a vague idea of what I am talking about.

I will describe the places in Kenya and Minah by terms of medical sites we visited, because they dictated our route, but our learning was a majority of non-medical, more cultural and spiritual things. This is not to say that we didn't learn a tremendous amount of medical based things, but God surpassed what the doctors taught us all the more.

From Moline IL, I flew out May 24 and stopped over in Detroit on my way to New York. Pearl River, NY is the HQ for the US base for our Organisation. This is where Rob, Kristina and I met. Then, May 26 we began a long trek from New York to London, which I believe was neigh seven hours. After a few hours of layover in London, we got on another plane to Nairobi, Kenya, nearly a nine hour flight. We spent the night in Nairobi at the Organisation's guesthouse. The next day we began our ride around Kenya.

The places we went and why...
Kijabe: hospital, homestay and to orientate with Pam and Paul (longtermers in Kenya)
Nakuru: church, game park (safari), the only hotel (one night)
Churo: dispensary, Amaya moblie clinic, the most rural place we went
Nakuru: dropped Paul off to go home to Kijabe drove through
Litein: hospital (up close and personal)
Nairobi: stay in guesthouse (one night)
Kajiado: Childcare center, dispensary, mobile clinics in Partimarou and Piliwa, girls school
Nairobi: guesthouse for a night and flight to Minah

Minah is divided into four "provinces" in a way, like Canada, only it takes a 30 minute plane ride to get from one to the next.

We spent time in two "provinces" which we shall call GC and MH.
GC cities:
Oni: homestay, Catholic hospital, Muslim Hospital, Dr. Cortino's (a Ugandan) private practise, Kathryn's team in GC. We spent a week in Oni and then went to another "province" MH and stayed with Ruth (Kathryn didn't come with us).

MH cities:
Ezi: Staying with Ruth, visiting Heather
Ani: dispensary
Boni: hospital and clinic
Goni: hospital and families

Then we went back to GC and went to Dja for debriefing. Then back to Kenya, and back to London and New York and IL and Iowa.

Please note that the cities in Minah are magically abbreviated to be not the real names. Now, once we are all caught up on how the navigation of the trip worked, I will tell you the good stuff.