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I am a nurse practitioner who does intermittent medical, discipleship, and education missions to South Nyanza Province, Kenya. We have a two room clinic which is not currently funded, but our last short term mission treated 160 rural Kenyans with very little distant access to health care.
Our agency, the Kansas to Kenya Connection, also funds a Girls Secondary School, the first in rural Suna, where girls are not commonly sent to school, but married off at puberty. Initially the village would not send their daughters to such a humble facility, so we matriculated 15 orphaned girls who were more than happy for the educational opportunity.
The students are in their second year, the teachers having built the classrooms and desks themselves. Our new class of first year students (freshmen) began last month and there is now a waiting list. Orphans and local Suna girls are given first priority.
Our hope for future years is for full funding for the Suna Missionary Clinic to be open fulltime and for brick buildings to accomodate all grades and forms for preschool through secondary school at the Glory Missionary Girls Centre.
I wish I had known about Global Missions Health Conference three years ago when I first began missionary work in Kenya. It would have saved me alot of effort and disappointment. GMHC is such a blessing to our work in Kenya.