Wowzer just about 2 weeks since I left home, and it honestly feels like yesterday! Still having an absolute blast and today was no different :) Today was meant to be a day working at the slums in Nairobi and visiting the markets BUT now its regarded as not safe for westerners :( it was a day of hard graft instead!! I definatly mean hard graft, it was at Mukeu, the school for disabled children that I helped at last week! The volunteers that normally work there (...

Yes Kenya can be freezing, cold and miserable too - just like home! This morning it was horrible - had both my hoodie and jacket on! I was asked to work in the CCC today, which is further away from the health centre but still part of it. It's called Comprehensive Care Clinic for TB and HIV patients!! It was really interesting, I was handing out their treatment drugs, working in the records room, recording treatments and giving them their next appointment! The n...

Well this was the first morning this week we managed to have breakfast without any bad news about violence in Niarobi :) Today I went back to the Family Planning Clinic in Karuri Health Centre, as I was going to run the clinic with 2 student nurses but there was no clients!!! So I went next door to the under 5's clinic which was really busy! There was a talk about the pneumococcal, polio and diphtheria immunisations which was was really interesting! Verena th...

We're not having a great week so far with the news!!! Breakfast time again and Lavina informed of us of another bomb in Nairobi, at the bus stop last night that insured 8 and killed 1!! Everyone is pretty anxious and the Americans are advising against travel to Nairobi!! Anyways another interesting day, think I've turned into a midwife in like 4 days of working here!! Today I was instructed how to educate PMTCT (Prevention of Mother to Child Transmission) basic...

Well back to reality... a week of work! At breakfast though, Lavina told us she had a message from home saying there had been a grenade launched into a Nairobi night club at 3am our time! We were planning going out in Niarobi on Sat night but that plans will all be stopped. Everyone is bit anxious since the group was all in the night club the Saturday before I arrived! Still at Karuri Health Centre/Clinic and today I was working in the Antenatal clinic... yes I...