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Most of us do good in our spare time. Some people do it for a living. Nobody told them that pandemics are a reasonable excuse to slow down.

My answer these days is pretty straightforward. Google Maps drives me.

In which fixing motorcycles leads to better healthcare

There’s something amazing about watching people who society assumes should be enemies work together as friends and allies instead.

Last week, I had the pleasure of hosting three members of the team from Cana Family Health Care Center – one of our clients – at our home in Kijabe. Cana has been switching over to Banda from paper.

I am old enough to know now that, behind all the sweet stories and pageants of this holiday season, there is a Christmas story reality that gets some people to give up their plans for finding peace and security in life and pursue something bigger but less comfortable.

A nurse, with a half-dead woman strapped to her back with a bedsheet, riding a motorcycle through the woods in the pitch-black night…

– and you are a real, licensed healthcare provider trying to take care of your patients.

The Mukuru slum is home to over half a million people. Walking down Mukuru’s dirt streets, you see people everywhere — shopping, visiting, working, eating, and sleeping. The lively atmosphere is not necessarily what you would expect to see in an underprivileged living settlement.

A child’s terrified cry rings out at 6 a.m. in the poor, high-rise community of Builders outside Nairobi, Kenya. Residents rush to their laundry-strewn balconies to locate the source of the scream, already knowing what happened: another child has fallen from one of the balconies onto the dirt road below.

A Young Dentist on a Mission to Establish Herself in Nairobi By Natalie Walters Subscribe to our newsletter Linda standing outside of JoLynn Dental Clinic. “JoLynn”

Elizabeth was working part-time in a hospital in Nairobi while completing her gynecology residency when she realized she wanted to do something more to help her community. But to do it right, she needed her sister, Lorna. Together, they opened the new St. Catherine of Sienna medical center just outside of Nairobi.

The first thing I noticed at Community Health Partners Health Center in Narok, about three hours outside of Nairobi, was the beautiful Maasai patients sitting on a single, wooden bench outside the clinic.

Our first clinic visit was in Nairobi at Midhill Clinic, which I was excited to see because it was run by two females. I expected to find two type-A females who were blunt, business-minded individuals. But since there’s no way to look their clinic up online or even to find a picture of them on a social media site, I had to wait patiently during the two hour drive from our base in Kijabe to see if my assumptions were correct.

“We believe there is enough wealth in the world to eradicate poverty, we just need to will to do so.” – the Scotts.

As a young couple, Sylvia and Stephen Scott left their little home village near Matangwe in rural western Kenya to study and work in Canada. Twenty years later, they came back to a Matangwe they hardly recognized and partnered with local leaders to start the clinic that eventually became Matangwe Hospital.

Celebrate with us! That’s 12,000 men, women and children slated to receive faster, more reliable healthcare at their local clinic this year.

A few weeks ago, the New York Times published an article about the rise of drug-resistant bacteria in Kenya. Poor sanitation, cheap medication, unregulated prescription and unsafe antibiotic use have all contributed to the spread of bacterial infections that no longer respond to standard antibiotic treatment.

In Part I, we met Stephen Muthama of Builders Health Clinic. We looked at some of the challenges he faces running a private clinic in Pipeline Embakasi, a neighborhood on the south side of Nairobi, Kenya. Today, we’ll look at the ways Muthama has been using Banda Go to improve his business and deliver good healthcare to his patients – including two novel ways that caught us off guard.

Stephen Muthama started using Banda Go in his clinic just over two months ago. I caught up with him the other day to get a feel for how things were going with Banda Go at his clinic.