Doro Day in Pictures

Monday, November 8

6:45-7:45 AM Sunrise, Devotions, Breakfast

8:00 AM Devotions at the clinic with Pastor Bulus and CHWs (Community Health Workers)

Pastor Bulus shares from the Bible and prays for the patients

Prayer

Bulus registers patients after they are triaged; here he is finding a patient's chart from her previous registration card (in three years, we have seen over 19,000 people)

Waiting to be seen

CHW Stephanos holds Baby Dr Rob

Sabine, the mother of baby "Dr Rob"

Tita's sutures removed

my friend Tita

Brothers enjoying a Cars book while waiting for mom

sweet smile

CHW Benjamin's assesses a child

CHW Benjamin notes the sick person's complaints, his assessment, the diagnosis and treatment

I just fitted this man with glasses... his daughter is getting used to the new look

Stopping to pose while consulting Sheila

11:00 AM Chai break! CHWs Michael and Peter are ready for a rest

Follow-up visit. This young lady was carried in with cerebral malaria last week

Dorinda (midwife from Australia) and Sheila (pediatric nurse from US) label medications

Bitten by a dog but still smiling

Brother peeks through the window to make sure sis is ok

Dorinda with some of the CHWs

Baby was struggling to breathe this morning; he received antibiotic injections and by the afternoon, mom was happy to take her recovering boy home.

3:00 PM Walking home from clinic. Here comes the truck from town. Sandy was at an NGO mtg

3:30 PM Hour in the hammock with inspirational reading

Laundry

Nurse Vicki and one of her mousers

Sheila and Karissa lighting gikos (charcoal burner) for dinner preparation

5:15 PM Sheila, Dorinda, and Abebech join me for some exercise on the airstrip

Man on the airstrip carrying grass for tukul roof

Cattle on the airstrip

View of the airstrip while running

Almost sunset

Girl jogs with the basket on her head

Tukul 7: home sweet home

6:45 PM Bucket shower at dusk

crescent moon above the compound

dinner-time with all the gals

Karissa finishes the green beans

Sani (helps teach literacy and HIV program) reads before camping out in Tukul 7

"From the rising of the sun to its going down

The Lord's name is to be praised."

Psalm 113:3