AMREF and Flying Doctors

Monday, May 23rd
Location: Nairobi

Today we were back to the routine of Swahili, lectures, and an afternoon trip. I am super sore from our hike the day before. Today was awful...I was really late to class and I left my notebook behind.  The Swahili class was packed with information.  It was by far one of the best. We learnt more conversation basics like "where are you from?" and "where do you study?" We learnt the tense forms and how to say love you in different persons.  Following that, we had a lecture on the elector process.  One of the biggest things that lecturer was discussing was how to prevent the corruption that occurred in the 2007 election.
Later we visited Flying doctors and AMREF. I really like the mission and vision of AMREF. I would even consider interning there someday.  We learnt some really cool facts about Flying Doctors. They remind me of Lifestar here in the US.  They typically fly to remote areas to pick up people who are seriously in need of hospitalization.  They fly them to anywhere in the world that the UN approves.  What I thought was strange was they only land in places where there is an airstrip.  But, nonetheless, Flying Doctors is a great program.  They have doctors, nurses, and pilots on call to be prepared to leave. Vikki gave us a lecture for AMREF, you may remember Vikki she was the reason we were able to experience nightlife in Kenya. AMREF is African Medical and Research Foundation.  It is the only international NGO headquartered in Kenya.  They are based on donor funding like USAID, CIDA, Global Fund and more. She opened the lecture with a Community Health Worker on the ground.  It was great beacuse this is what I would be doing my paper on. To learn more about AMREF click here. I love Victoria and her lecture was great though we did not have enough time as we were going to Kenyatta market.
The market closed at 6pm so we had only 20 minutes.  Most of the girls wanted Kangas but I wanted traditional wear.  So while they looked for Kangas I found a guy who had some beautiful dresses so of course I bought one for my sister and I told him I would return for one me and my other sister in two weeks.