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Our BlogWednesday, April 30, 2008 Maternity WardThe lush green hills of the Mukeu district of Kenya are home to a wonderful rural people, living simply farming various crops and raising cows, goats, and chickens. Compassion Works International (CWI) has worked with the Mukeu African Inland Church on several medical and dental projects over the last few years. Through this time, the church clinic has grown from a small building built on faith to now a dispensary, a dental clinic, and a site for HIV counseling and testing.
The community needs a maternity center. Currently, mothers giving birth have very limited options in rural Mukeu. They face a long expensive ride to Kijabe hospital, very limited resources in the clinic, or delivery at home which is quite risky and unsanitary in most local houses. In early 2007, doctors Rick Sams and Paul Bunge were in Mukeu with CWI for 2 weeks. A community health needs assessment and meetings with local leaders confirmed the benefits of a maternity center in Mukeu.
The effectiveness of continued medical work in Mukeu
depends on staffing and not just buildings. It is a great challenge, as
it is in many areas of the world, to retain quality medical workers in
a rural area when often there are high paying jobs in the cities or in
other countries. A scholarship program run by the local clinic board is
planned with the hopes of supporting the education of motivated young
people in medicine in exchange for service in the Mukeu facility. What can you do about this? Donations to Compassion Works International will go to both the maternity ward and the scholarship fund. Pray for us as we try to best organize and implement both of these projects. And please consider joining us on one of our 2-4 week trips to Mukeu, Kenya. Your skills and knowledge can help out in CWI’s work, and this experience will impact your life forever.
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