Thursday

Hard to accept that tomorrow will be our last day working on this trip.  I feel bad leaving, but think we have been helpful and it has certainly been worthwhile.  Finished work a little early today and went for my first run here.  It is around 6600 feet here and there isn't a great deal of oxygen.  Here is a screen shot about what my GPS watch said about it.

On the left is a map.  I zoomed out so you could see where we are (the red dot) in relation to the rest of East Africa.  The right is the up and down of my little 2 1/2 mile run.  It did hurt a bit!

I think I wrote about this before, but here are a few general images/facts about Tenwek.

In the late 50's and early 60's these two small buildings were the clinic and hospital.  The first full time doctor was in 1959.

Now, it is a full service, major referral and teaching hospital with a full-time medical staff of both missionaries and Kenyan nationals.  While the challenges here are innumerable, it is a shinning light in this part of the world.