WHY I CLIMBED -- THE MEDICAL CLINIC EXPANSION

So after the climb to the top of Mt. Kenya and my return to Nairobi, I met up with my two Hoosier buddies, Keith O'Dell and Al Lay.  We then flew to Kisumu and then travelled to the village of Kager in the Homa Bay District.

It was the eighth time a team from Indiana of the Jubilee Village Project had been to Kager -- and in the three years of these visits -- the village really has started to transfrom.  During our week in the village, we conducted six different vision and goal setting workshops with villagers.  We also introduced 4 "innovation projects": SODIS (solar water disingection), solar bottle light bulbs, solar tire cookers and aquaponics.

The Expansion (Next to Existing Dispensary)

On Thursday (9/22), we met with the newly formed Village Health Committee, made up of 3 staff from the clinic and 12 community representatives from Kager and surrounding villages.  It was on that day that we had a groundbreaking ceremony for the Kager Medical Clinic expansion -- the sole purpose of the Climb To End Poverty.

I was honored to join Mr. Michael Anayo Oyudo, Chairman of the Health Committee, to lift our traditional African hoes and break the hard rocky ground of Kager for the new foundations of the expansion.  It truly was "a dream come true" to know that because of the many faithful sponsors back in the USA, the clinic expansion we were breaking ground for was already funded and was certain to be completed.


Ned and Michael Oyudo

When finished, the Clinic is planned to look like the following plans: