Day 2 of the Medical Camp

It's 8 p.m., we've taken a late afternoon walk down the street in Nyamira, eaten dinner and we're all heading to bed!
We're exhausted after getting up at 6, leaving at 7 for the Reading Centre and seeing over 425 patients today.
Working non stop with 20 minutes for a pb and j lunch, Amy and Michelle saw patients with medical problems, Fran, Sarah, Lee and Karen tested and fit people with glasses, Georgia, Allison and Joyce did triage-checking people in taking temps and blood pressures, and Lynn cheered the whole thing on.
There are Kenyan pharmacists, medical officers and translators working with us, a Kenyan doctor is testing for HIV/Aids and counseling, the dentist removed many teeth.
People waited hours and were so patient and grateful for our being there. One of our drivers said that a woman came to the van he was waiting in and told him she couldn't believe she could get a free checkup and free medicine and eyeglasses....that people would come all that way for them. She said that was like what Jesus did - he made people well and said 'now you can go home.'
We saw a man with a face burned since he was a child and with no eyelids, needing and having no money for plastic surgery, a man who couldn't stand and dragged himself across the floor with his forearms that had flip flops strapped on to protect them, and then majority of the people with general medical problems found everywhere as well as more specific to Africa. And the face you see pictured above shows the smile that appeared when the glasses were placed on people and they discovered they could see! See the tag on the glasses? That was one of many put on by Aldersgate folks!