Kenyan Contraception Delivery

For the past week, I stayed with the family of a community health worker on the Rift Valley's floor. With no running water, electricity, meat, mattresses or toilets, things were pretty tough. But my camping 'experience' paid dividends in the end, so I did manage to survive.


During the daytime, we had to walk for over an hour each way to ICROSS's Inyonyori health clinic, where I was helping out. The views were spectacular and on one of the days, I saw a hyena crossing a path in front of me on my way back, as well as a red cobra.



Most of the patients I saw were young children coming for checkups. Wednesdays are when all the vaccinations are given out and on Fridays, those kids who have been classified as underweight drop by to pick up their weekly soy flour (mixed with vegetable oil), to hopefully get them to a healthy weight.





The funniest patient of the week, hands down, had to be a little kid who had been sent up from the local school by his elder peers with the following piece of paper:



"Pliz give this boy condoms one packet to bring for me."

Genius!

This tiny Inyonyori clinic, on average, gives away 600 condoms a week.