Judith visits nurse at Juma's clinic: Rivers Community Clinic

 

 

 

Today Paul, Derrick and I went at Rivers clinic to verify drug delivery. I had a long session of questions concerning her work that I had prepared before. Among them were questions on regular diseases affecting the community, midwifery, requirements for one to study a nursing course, challenges most nurses' face and how to overcome them, family planning method, means used in transferring patients to other hospitals treatment of septic spot and other disease preventive measures.

·         The response was: the most common disease affecting people in the community is malaria. It affects both young and old people.

·         On midwifery the nurse is well skilled, she can deliver. The only problem is that she is not allowed by the government to assist pregnant woman to deliver at her own place because there are problems that normally arise during delivery.

·         For one to study nursing, she only needs passion toward caring other people.

Challenges:

·         Patients dying in your hands.

·         Get infections if not handled well or if there is no gloves and antiseptics.

·         The other challenge is incase of need for transfer of patient to a bigger hospital she has to look for means of getting him /her for medication.

·         So far she only offers Three months injection and pills for family planning.

·         For septic spot, she said there two type: itching and watery. For itching use hydrochotizim and watery- clozole.

The clinic lacks machine for testing HIV Aids. But guides and counsel people.

Since your visit to rivers clinic, 25 patients have passed through their hands. The most rampart diseases where as listed below:

·         Malaria.

·         Wounds from injuries and assaults.

·         Bronchitis.

·         Asthmatic.

The patients take water that she prepares using frandsen that purifies water for safe drinking.

The drugs were purchased and Paul took pictures of them.

God bless you

Regards

Judith

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Programming at Center

We believed in our team

Sharon O

If Sharon had been sponsored sooner- she may have grown to adulthood.

Team in 2010

Things change but we remember how fun it was....

Bought lotsa these

Starting our own goat breeding program!

Worship!

I love worshipping with Sister Eunice at Ebulecia Church!

Everlyne's foot healing

We praise God for the good healing of Everlyne's serious burns due to a bowl of hot oil tipping over and splashing her painfully.

Fredrick and Walter

Hmmmn....what are some of the things we do?

TGD PROJECTS

 

1.       Children Sponsorship program providing home base care to orphans and vulnerable children. The program provides spiritual, personal, medical and educational needs of the needs as well of providing the family with regular groceries. The children get frequent visits and assemble monthly to bond and play among other fun activities.

2.       Free basic community computer literacy trainings.

3.       Advanced skills training in computer technologies.

4.       Community well at Bumamu village serving several families.

5.       Partnering with churches especially cornerstone church ministry in supplying bibles and bible study kits.

6.       Supporting various needy homes in the community by providing livestock and poultry

7.       Sponsorship to higher education, and skills training such as driving.

8.       Provision of life skills training to the youth and other target groups in areas such as leadership, communication skills, time management etc.

9.       Provision of basic medical equipment to midwives in the village.

10.   Promotion of Christian values through the Christian library containing materials for spiritual growth as a Christian.

11.   Support of widows in the community

12.   Creation of jobs to youths in the community who are currently working with TGD. Others are given short term contracts e.g. during building construction.

13.   Equipping of youths with skills such as photography, video editing, motorbike riding, web design and programming.

14.   Partnership with cornerstone churches to purchase motorcycles and bicycles for staff and church pastors.

15.   Building project that will see the TGD resource Centre complete. It currently houses, staff offices, meeting rooms, library, training rooms and store.

16.   Support to various medical establishments ranging from government facilities such as Iguhu district hospital, community health Centre’s such as Emusanda health clinic such as Dr. Kennedy Siloam Clinic, and village health Centre’s e.g. Rivers clinic run by Pst. Juma.

17.   Provision of uniform, utensils and playing equipment to village schools.

18.   Construction of toilets at cornerstone church in Shibuli used by the school, church and TGD community.

19.   TGD has helped families by boosting existing business through facilitation of funds to expand the business their business.

20.   Promoted and encouraged creation of self-help groups within the TGD community. Guardians to sponsored children have a registered group and the youth & staff are in the process of formalizing their own.

21.   Initiation of micro-loan, lending project to guardians. It started with Mrs. Lumbasi (Evangeline’s guardian) who is trading in the buying and selling of dried fish.

22.   TGD is sponsoring needy bright students in high school education currently there are fifteen.

23.   Educating the community on treating and consuming safe water, following research carried out by Dr. Mickey and Otis Stanley, which showed a lot of the water available in the village is not safe for human consumption.

24.   TGD has initiated an agricultural project by purchasing farm equipment, like water pump, watering cans, hoe, rake, wheelbarrow and spades. It has also purchased seeds like kale which has made the sponsored children to harvest every month at no cost.

25.   During Christmas, the sponsored children and staff have had gifts provided for by TGD organization every year. This include cash bonuses, clothes, animals and gift hampers.

26.   Random acts of love to various needy people in the society e.g. provision of baby diapers, cotton wool, settling hospital bills to those unable to and other basic requirements at Kakamega general hospital.

Health and nutrition Article

 

Health and Nutrition

Our Health and Nutrition Department involves:

Staff members check on the progress of children's health and personal hygiene by giving direction on how children should keep themselves clean. We ensure that their teeth are well brushed, their nails and hair are short, and their clothes are clean.

We have sessions with the guardians on use of pathogen control measures, such as using of mosquito nets and water treatment/soap usage to reduce chances of infections that cause diarrhea.  We discuss their home environment to educate them to ensure bushes are cleared, stagnant water drained, compost pits are used and latrines are available.

We further advise our guardians to ensure the sponsored children's diet is balanced. The diet should include carbohydrate, vitamins and proteins for healthy growth.

We visit homes when there is a need. For example, Beverlyn's home that was infected by the jiggers. We took the initiative of cleaning their legs, removing the jiggers and applying the necessary ointment.

We've been identifying children with different health problems. There are some various concerns: Allergy-Sharlyne is allergic to some foods and to vaseline, fungal spots-Brian, Paul, Asman and Benjamin. Ear problem-Lilian's ears always drain pus.

We've collected documents from the homes, such as children's birth certificates and parent's/guardian's national identification cards. This will enable us to register our children for NHIF (National Health Insurance Fund) here in Kenya.

 

 

 

 

Singing children

Wote means everywhere or all.... The point is: God, I looked everywhere but there is none like You!

Some photos from my trip

Acacia Trees, so pretty

Baby Stephanie, child of pastor Bernard and wife Rose who teaches at Ebulechia, with Fredrick, our sponsored child (Chris and Tracy Leon)

Don leads the children in prayer and fun at Ebulechia Church on Sunday

Baby Goatie--Love him!

Herding cows in the countryside.

Little girls

These sweet ragamuffins came to visit me daily because I purchased cookies to give away. You can buy this huge box of a couple hundred cookies for very cheap. I meant to take some to Pastor Joseph's school.

Love these guys

Puppy n kitty

Enjoyed these sweeties!

My new favorite picture!

Hello there!

Team TGD Kenya

back row: Duncan, Wellingtone, Derrick, Stephanie, Erick, Judith, Don, Paul
front row: Carolyne, Brian, Henry, Juma, Sharon

God is with us!

Send Judith to Nursing School for $1200!

A one year program can change a life. Her husband is a day laborer with little work. She has a son she prayed for: Brighton, just over one year! And she has worked at TGD training others for three years. Please Give!

Ebulechia school needs $10 desks- please help!!

Children receiving scriptures from True North Community Church Uptown!

From Long Island, NY to Shibuli village, Western Kenya! God's Word!

Pastor Juma painting our TGD rooms!

Toy room ready to receive children

Kenyans are very creative with motorbikes!

In our area, a motorcycle is like a luxury car. So much fancier than bikes or feet!! Only $1500

Motorcycles

$1500 buys a motorcycle for our staff. We have four but two are really aging. $100 could go toward some repairs. We have one still in the shop and I will look into that next week. Erick is riding one of the older ones.

Bikes n more

For $120, you can buy bikes for transporting our sponsored children up a long slopping hill to our garden on distribution day.

For $120, you can buy a sewing machine so mothers can sew clothes for their children and students can practice to see if this skill is suited to them.

Kenya home

Today we shared a meal (although i was sharing with Jack before we send him to bible school next week.) We all covered some objectives including creating brochures highlighting what God does here and webpages for for new Sharepoint tgdonline. I discussed photos and the money donated in 2013. We purchased cooking supplies which were $342 -- for one meal! But the cooktop and pans/spoons/plates/bowls for 20 people are now available in the future.

January 3 in Kenya

Today i greeted Titus n Rose N Sheila n boys! What a great work God is doing through this family in Kenya! I love them and bless them! I met with my beautiful team- so smart, I love them so much. I hope they will show you their talents by creating brochures explaining what we do. We spent the day gathering things to share a meal. I hope I get personal time with each of them while I am here! I want to get really powerful photographs, too!

Christabel Reports

The following is an account of the achievement for the ended month of December 2013.

Pastor Ed, Mama Anita, Larry, Cindy and Michael arrived In Kenya and made it to TGD safely. While at TGD they were a source of inspiration. Always encouraging the staff team to keep on giving their best while at the same time congratulating them of their achievements in the five years gone.

Also, their presence during the Christmas distribution gave energy to the whole experience. Though they were tired from their missionary work. They still spared time until late in the evening posing next to our sponsored children as they received their Christmas items and gifts alike. The whole experience registered synergy in the staff team as everybody worked hard to achieve the day's goals.

Later on the same month Mama Anita had a chance to meet the staff team and the students i.e. she gave an extensive lecture on differences between love and lust and urged the youth to embrace biblical love as it shapes a complete pure lifestyle. We had a question and answer session too and everybody with questions had adequate answers.

Moving on Paul had an opportunity to take Alice through computer fundamentals and the results registered was satisfying. We hope this knowledge acquired will keep her ahead of her peers in school and thus propel her aim higher. We wish her all the best

Finally, we broke for the Christmas holidays on 24^th and have now resumed duties successfully.

As we usher in a new year of 2014, we pray that God gives us his grace and favor in everything.

Happy and a prosperous 2014! In relation to Jeremiah 29:11.

Regards

Christabel