Judy Davis - At Work in the Friends Hospital Kaimosi, Kenya

New PICS in Folder called Grandma Judy!!!  Check it out! With luck some pics of the new "West Coast" twins will be coming soon!!!!

Check out PICS of relief work with people displaced from recent political turmoil - check out Kenya 2008.  Thanks for Pictures Raymond!!! all on this link http://picasaweb.google.com/ray1977ke

January 19, 2008: Judy Davis is scheduled to leave for Kenya on January 28, 2008 and work at the Kaimosi Friends Mission Hospital until April 10, 2008. If you are checking this blog, please leave a note for Judy or send her an e-mail.

The Art Museum -  Speaking Volumes: Transforming Hate

 http://www.holtermuseum.org/exhibitions/exhibitions_speaking_volumes.htm Amazing story; Amazing art.

Please note a change in e-mail for the time in Kaimosi: nursejudydavis@gmail.com.   

I am unable to access my MSN e-mail from western Kenya this summer. 

The summer of 2006 found me working in Tabitha Clinic in the largest slum in East Africa known as Kibera. The experience shook up my world view and helped me set meaningful priorities for my service as a new nurse. The work was so compelling that I returned to Kenya in the summer of 2007 to work in a rural area known as Kaimosi. The population of the hospital's catchment area is about 206,661. This number includes the permanent population plus 50,00 students, staff, and faculty at various learning institutions on the Kaimosi Mission road which includes university, theological college, primary school, secondary school, vocational training center, teacher training college, and science and technology college. The Friends United Meeting (FUM) founded its mission in Kaimosi in 1902 and began offering medical services in 1903.The hospital expanded over the decades until it reached capacity as a full-service nurse medical and surgical center with facilities for a nursing school. Much happened during the following decades when the church was offered the opportunity to operate the hospital under its own self governance. By 1996 the hospital was in a devastated condition and the school of nursing was closed. In 1997, the East African Yearly Meeting approached FUM to take over the hospital again. After several years of negotiation, total management control of the hospital was given to FUM. Currently a high caliber Board of Governers are working diligently to assess the situaltion, prioritize the capital improvements needed, improve the services offered, restore public confidence, and operate with in strict fiscal controls. FUM is committed to mission relationships marked by partnership, mutual accountability, transparency, capacity building, and local ownership.

A small apartment has been reconstructed and refurbished for me to live in while working in the hospital over the summer. My ability to work as a nurse still rests in the hands of the Kenyan Board of Nursing. My appointment with them is on June 5, 2007. In the meantime I will be providing administrative support to any project needed.