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Last Day in Kenya!
Our 9-day Medical Camp has finally come to an end…
We saw a total of 3308 MCF children and members of the surrounding region—a new record high!
Medical Camp Recap
Final Day
Our final day in Ndalani began with an early morning climb to the top of Mulli Mountain at 6am before breakfast.
After quite (literally) a breathtaking hike, we left MCF Ndalani and boarded our bus to Nairobi, where we stayed for a night. The next day, our team split up to go on a safari tour, while the rest of us were surprised with a tour of Nairobi National Park and a visit to the Giraffe Centre before our flight back home.
Many thanks to the generous donor who made this possible! We are extremely grateful to you and all of our supporters, leaders, and the MCF staff. This trip couldn’t have been a huge success without you all.
Asante sana!
Thank you very much!
Love,
Team Upendo
Masai Ujiri/Giants of Africa at MCF
Last Day of the MCF Medical Camp
Friday, Aug 16, was the last day of our Medical Camp. The crowds seemed to grow with each new day. On the last day, patients were arriving at 4 am!
Team Upendo was able to serve over 600 people for the last couple of days. Many have been in pain for years. It was so humbling and gratifying to see how resilient our patients were and how much they appreciate our services.
To top off an amazing 2 weeks at MCF, two of our alumni MCF team mates were baptized by Dr. Charles Mulli and our entire Team celebrated the joyous occasion!
Medicine Finally Arrives at the MCF Medical Camp!
Thank You to all our Prayer Warriors and everyone who helped to get our HPIC Medicines out of customs at the Nairobi Airport!!
On Aug 15, the second last day of our medical camp, we finally received our 19 boxes of HPIC Medicine!
It is only by God’s miraculous provision and grace that we can run 7 days of a Medical Camp, without the medicine that we had brought from Canada! How is that humanly possible?
Dr Charles Mulli is so thankful to HPIC and all our donors for providing MCF and their surrounding community with the much needed medicine!
Wednesday August 14
On Monday we reopened the clinic to the surrounding community. Since then we’ve seen hundreds of people who have walked from near and far to receive much needed medical services. Despite having limited medication, we were able to provide medical, pharmaceutical, dental, and optical care over the past few days by purchasing some local medicine—thanks to the donations of our generous donors!
Sun August 11
This past Sunday we took a day off from clinic to attend a church service at MCF Ndalani, including praise and worship and a sermon by Dr. Charles Mully.
Following this, we took an hour-long bus ride to visit the women and children of MCF Yatta. We toured the greenhouse and interacted with the women in their sewing and hair dressing classes.
HPIC Medication
Today, our 20 boxes of HPIC medication were approved by the Kenyan Poison Control Board and are hopefully on their way to us.
Thank you all for your continued support and prayers!
Day 9 – We the North @ MCF Ndalani!
Tuesday, Aug 13th started as usual, with 7 am devotions (Spiritual Reflection on Forgiveness), breakfast at 7:30 and the Medical Camp started at 8:15 am. Hundreds of Kenyans from the local community were already waiting since 6 am.
As the morning chaos started to get organized and patients started to be registered and triaged, we had a wonderful unexpected treat!
The new MCF stadium, which is still being built, was being utilized for a very special group of MCF Children.
Who would have expected to see Masai Ujiri, President of the Toronto Raptors and NBA Champions, running a basketball camp at MCF Ndalani!
Masai was so gracious and friendly, that he took many pictures with our team and signed many autographs, including shirts and scrubs!
How Cool was that!
Afterwards, Team Upendo continued to serve over 400 patients with Medical, Dental, Optometry and Pharmaceutical services. In addition, we started to provide Servant Leadership Training to MCF Teachers and staff.
Please continue praying for our Team and that the HPIC Medicine will be approved by the Kenyan Poison Control Board, so that we will have enough medicine for all the people we are serving!
Medical Camp Updates
Wednesday
August 7
After our early morning arrival to MCF Ndalani, we received a warm welcome and orientation for the day. We toured the grounds and visited the children in their classrooms.
Thursday/Friday
August 8-9
Throughout two days we saw over 600 MCF children at our free medical clinic.
Saturday
August 10
Despite a few bumps along the road, we were able to successfully open up the clinic to the surrounding the community.
We ask for your continued prayer and support as we await the approval of our 20 boxes of medication at the airport.
Knitwear for MCF Children
Elizabeth Wray and her team in Belleville, Ontario, brought 17 Hockey bags full of knitwear and other essential clothing for the children of MCF!
As the Grandmas knitted the items, they were praying for the MCF Children who would be wearing the items. The MCF Children were so happy to receive their hats and sweaters, to help keep them warm, especially when the temperature drops down under 10 degrees Celsius in Kenya. For many, this was the first hat that they ever received.
Thanks so much to the Grandmas of Belleville who put so much love into the knitwear, which will keep many MCF Children warm!
Urgent Prayer Needed!
Thank You Everyone for all your support and prayers!
We have started our health clinic for the last few days and have served over 481 patients in the last 2.5 days. However, we just got news from MCF that our Kenyan Poison Control documentation has been held up, due to one government official who will not sign the documents. As a result, much of our medication is still stuck at the airport.
Team Upendo and MCF asks for your urgent prayers! Our Health Clinic opens today, on Saturday, Aug 10th and we don’t have our 20 boxes of medicine from HPIC.
Please pray that some how, we will have medicine for the thousands of patients we are anticipating!
Opening our Doors! – Reflections by Jon Ng
Jambo! Greetings from Kenya.
Pharma team – Setting up
Following yesterday’s Orientation Day and a good night’s sleep that has been sorely missed since our departure from Toronto, we finally opened our clinic doors to patients.
First, we kicked our day off with some worship and a morning devotional. Focusing on the theme of compassion, we reminded ourselves why and how we serve: as a response to the greatest act of compassion known to man, God recognizing our suffering in sin and having the loving kindness to sacrifice His Son. Through this expression of love can we only now understand that our compassion is an outwardly expression of Christ’s initial love in us.
Following this, we set up our clinic: unpacking our medication and equipment, identifying what inventory previous teams left could be reused, and communicating within our sub-teams in order to operate as a cohesive unit. This was not without its own share of challenges, however. We were unable to unpack a large portion of our medication as they are still being held by Kenya Customs officers due to a yet-to-arrive approval from Kenyan Poison Control. The dental machines were undergoing numerous operational issues. And, physically providing space to accommodate all the medical professionals required logistical gymnastics.
But, as always, God is good and He provides, allowing us to serve. The optical team was able to run eye exams in the hall between the dental rooms and pharmacy and despite operational difficulties that come with any first day, all sub-teams were able to effectively serve our patients. Overall, we were able to see 69 individuals in the afternoon following our setup.
While this number is respectable for our first full day of clinic, we hope to serve far more of the MCF students tomorrow. We’ve debriefed what we did well, and what remains to still be worked upon. Because of this, we do have a few prayer requests. Perhaps most significantly, please pray for government approval. We’re hoping our unapproved boxes can be greenlit soon and our medical professionals can receive their temporary medical papers as until both of those two things happen, we will be unable to serve at our fullest capacity.
Secondly, please pray for continued team energy and health as jetlag and mosquitoes are making sleep difficult for some members of our team. Lastly, please pray for the dental sub-team as many members are staying late, missing dinner and working late into the night in order to get all machines at working capacity.
Thank you all for reading, we really do appreciate all your prayers and support. Tomorrow, we will continue to serve the MCF children and will start serving the surrounding community on Friday. Monday will be when we will commence our servant leadership course. Well, that’s all from me, it’s time for me to sleep as we start bright and early tomorrow!
By Jonathan Ng
MCF 2019 Team Upendo 