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Back in Kenya after four years
Our first visit since December 2019 took in a nearly finished Honey Centre, a new delivery couch for a Maasai clinic and a community gathering of more than 70 people.
In November 2023 GIFT made its first visit to Kenya since December 2019. Through the pandemic, projects had been kept going with the help of trusted contacts on the ground. It was a joy to be back in person.
Highlights
- The coast Honey Centre was nearly complete. Read about beekeeping.
- The Transmara maternity clinic. We agreed to fund a modern delivery couch for the refurbished clinic.
- A community gathering about the Mother & Baby project. More than 70 people walked to it: mothers, babies, grandmothers, fathers and elders. After listening to them, we changed the package so that mothers also receive cash to buy nutritious food after the birth. Read about Mother & Baby.
- Cleft palate surgery. We met a leading surgeon at Nairobi Hospital to plan the operations our cleft fund had been waiting to pay for since 2020. Read about the cleft palate programme.
Back home in Northern Ireland, invitations to give talks have started again, mostly by word of mouth.