Eye Clinic at Segera!

Sarah Jansen with Riley Sanders. Two medical students who collected eyeglasses and conducted an eye clinic at Segera Mission for a week.

Riley with Samuel, a patient with severe myopia. Before the glasses, Samuel wasn't even able to read the eye chart.

Nurse Esther taking histories.

 
Sarah conducting visual screenings.

A student from Endana who was very photophobic was helped with some donated sunglasses.

  Riley giving an ophthalmology lecture.

 Eye clinic room all set up.

 
Another gentleman from the community given glasses.

Riley looking at one of the students supported by the Mission.

A local woman given glasses to improve her vision.

 Examining eyes and eyelids.

 And sunglasses were given to many people!

Nurse Leon with Riley. What a great team!

 

New Water Tank

Thank you Gansu Academy For Water Conservancy for your work and funding in building a very large rain water catchment tank at the mission!

For a Better World-Canada Visits Segera

Team Members from For A Better World - Canada giving a class to our Standard 4 class after normal school hours.

More Babies in May

Head Nurse Christine delivered 2 babies this morning! One girl and one boy.

Another healthy baby boy was born last night to our neighbor Gladys Akale. This has been a busy week in the maternity ward!

Office Building Finished

Some of the Mission children with Esther the dog and the new office building in the background.

Thanks to Bonnie and Daniel Martin, Kirsten Fontemayor, Val Sanders and the staff at Eyesight Associates, Joe and Diane Griffin and Covenant Presbyterian Church, Kay Bates and Andrew United Methodist Church, Nelda Tawse and Christ United Methodist Church, Rosa Smith, Christina Kwist, Rachel Lumpkin, Dr. Dixon and Advanced Eyecare, and Omni Dental Supply Company for your donations, volunteer work, and support.  We look forward to hosting Riley Sanders and Sarah Jansen for an eye clinic in a few weeks at the Mission!

New Water Storage Tank

Thank you For A Better World - Canada for your generous donation that allowed us to improve our water storage capability with a 24,000 liter tank! Thanks also to members of the community that helped us to get the tank on our reinforced water tower!

Clinic Success in March

Yet another baby born in our dispensary - the eight one this month. Nurse Leon Kimathi helped deliver baby Lokoiya Hassan. Congratulations to mother Susan Lanyei and father Jose Hassan.

Our medical dispensary saw 502 outpatients in March 2013. In addition, we gave out 99 immunizations in our Child Welfare Clinic, had 17 antenatal patients and 25 postnatal patients, and assisted in 23 family planning cases. Our Malnutrition clinic had zero severe malnutrition cases, and we treated 97 cases of moderate malnutrition of which 9 children became well enough to leave the program this month. Lastly, we delivered ten babies. Good job nurses and lab tech!

We Need Your Help to Sponsor Children

Little Faith Lomdang is the most recent of our students to have a sponsor. Here she is with her teacher Gladys. Sponsorships truly help us to provide great education, the porridge and lunch the students receive every school day, medical care, clean water and more. If you'd like to help transform a life please visit our webpage: http://segeramission.org/how-to-help/sponsorship-program/

Segera Mission Foundation's school, (The Jane Goodall African Academy), at founder Reverend Carlton "Pappy" Gleason's memorial sending their greetings.  Many of these students still need sponsors!  Please check out our webpage and consider changing one of these children's' lives.

Rain Preparation

As the rains should come soon, our infrastructure team prepares for it by repairing our public road and the road inside the mission. Our roads are very poor, and the black cotton soil can be extremely slippery and difficult.

Malnutrition Clinic and Food Distribution

Seven month old Alima, suffering from dehydration, being treated by Head Nurse Christine.

In our weekly malnutrition clinic today Head Nurse Christine, Nurse Esther and our Community Health Workers treated three cases of severe malnutrition and thirty-three moderate cases. In this photo they are distributing nutritious food supplements.

Clinic and Lab Update

Laboratory Technician Volunteer Jackline Makena running some tests in our dispensary's lab. Thank you for helping out Jackline! It was a busy day at the dispensary.

Head Nurse Christine doubles as our dog vet here and gave the eight puppies their rabies shots tonight at the fireplace built by founder of Segera Mission Rev. Carlton "Pappy" Gleason.

Head Nurse Christine conducting training for our four Community Health Workers. Today was our weekly immunization clinic, and today's class was on immunizations. 

Malnutrition Clinic

Another very busy Tuesday Malnutrition Clinic. Everyone including Head Nurse Christine, Nurse Leon Kimathi, and our four heroic Community Health Workers took a moment to say "HI" to our friends

New Toilets for the School!

Two more babies born at the dispensary this morning. That makes eleven for the month now.

Clinic News

Nurse Leon Kimathi delivered another baby! That makes eight at our dispensary for the month so far. Congratulations to mother Mary Athikuni and father David Okoyo! Baby Joyce Naroo weighed in at a healthy 3.2 kgs.

Two more babies born at the dispensary this morning. That makes eleven for the month now.

New Building

 Painter Paul adding some green trim to the new building.

The new building getting a coat of paint while ceilings and floors are worked on inside. Thanks Lee and Sheri Whiteside for the paint!

New School Classes and Technology

 Teachers Mary and Dominic's classes watching an educational DVD adding to their vocabulary and featuring a couple of new songs.

Head Teacher Julius showing the Standard 4 class how to grow avocado seedlings for transplanting later.

Welcome Lee and Sheri Whiteside

Great friends Lee and Sheri Whiteside being welcomed at Bethel Chapel, Segera Mission.

A Little Vet Work

Head Nurse Christine giving guard dog Honey's puppies their first shots, helped by Head Guard Francis Kerio and Dean Moull

New Office Building

The gang applying plaster reinforcement, paint, and some ceiling to the new building. Office floor was poured a couple of days ago.

New School Update

Francis putting the doors on our new sanitation block for the school which will be ready soon.

Clothes Donation

The Mission kids send their thanks to Marta Karpiel, Brian and Tomomi Skow and Joy Skow for their new clothes.

World Clothes Line

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QNvZf7m-X5s

Wonderful video from World Clothes Line about their trip through Africa in 2012. Thank you for stopping by Segera Mission on your adventure! The children really appreciate the clothing you donated.

Newsletter

January 2013 Newletter with a summary of 2012. It was an exciting and busy year!

 http://segeramission.org/wp-content/uploads/2013/01/2013Jan.pdf