Kenya Medical Outreach

Cumming Dentists: Do You Have The Right Toothbrush?

2012-02-04T11:25:00.001-05:00

The Right Toothbrush For Your

Do we always put alot of thought into choosing what kind of toothbrush we use. Well, as a general rule, I would have to say no. Most people are mainly interested in the color of toothbrush they purchase.

Many family's have a system where every member has a color that has somehow been assigned to them. This way no one uses the wrong toothbrush. This is great, but when picking out our toothbrush, we need to start thinking about what we are getting it for.

The job of a toothbrush is to reach and clean most areas of the teeth. The bristles of a toothbrush are very important when deciding on which one is the best for you. Soft bristled toothbrushes should be chosen as opposed to hard bristles which tend to cause gingival recession. Soft bristles are just more flexible and clean beneath the gingival margin without causing damage to your gums. We should also notice the size of the head of the toothbrush.

The head should be small enough to get to the hard to reach areas of the teeth. We should replace our toothbrush every 3 months or when the bristles start to wear. You should also change your toothbrush after a cold, flu, sore throat, or mouth infection. Maybe this information will help you and the health of your mouth the next time you purchase a toothbrush.

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Cumming Dentists: Stress And Your Dental Health

2012-02-03T22:19:00.001-05:00

Can Stress Affect Your Dental Health?

Are you battling stress in your life?

These days it is more like who doesn't have some sort of stress in their life. It seems that there just aren't enough hours in the day to do all that we "think" we need to get done. A recent stress in America Survey found that nearly 40 percent of adults experience wakefulness at night because of stress. Stress can have many different side affects on our bodies.

It can also have an impact on our dental health. One common side affect of stress is teeth grinding. Some people grind their teeth at night during their sleep and not even realize they are. This can cause headaches, sore jaws, or pain when biting.

Making small changes in your lifestyle can reduce stress levels. Eating healthier would be a great place to start. Until your stress becomes more managable, there is an appliance that can help with your teeth grinding. A mouth guard. It will act as a cushion for teeth when you are grinding. This will take the pressure off of your teeth which is causing your discomfort. The dentists here at Suwanee Dental Care can evaluate and determine if teeth grinding maybe the cause of your pain and discomfort. Come in today and get on your way to feeling better.

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Kingdom Focus in 2011 Mission Trip

2011-06-18T11:27:00.002-04:00

Eight team members from the USA traveled to Matunda and Narok Kenya to conduct the Transformed By Grace And Love Conference five times in eight days.

Attendance of the conferences by local pastors and leaders was excellent plus there were dignitaries from distant cities such as Nairobi, Nakuru and the TransMara.

Dollie Sauls and Penny Martin of Valentine International assisted in the planning and operation of the Kenya Medical Outreach mission this year and were a true blessing once again. Virginia and Moses of Streets of Light Organization and Campus Crusade For Christ also worked with us for the second year and were a welcome local team for all of their assistance in translation, music and support with the local people.

Each of our presenters did a fabulous job and made the spiritual journey one to remember. The Father's Heart was there and The Father's Love abounded. Joan, Tommy, Sheila, Tom, Angel, Donna, Pam, Lisa and I so enjoyed ministering to the folks in Matunda (ElDoret area) and Narok. Finally, we did enjoy out safari time in the Masai Mara at Fig Tree Camp also.

Ready for Kenya 2011

2011-05-23T23:26:00.004-04:00

The Kenya mission team for 2011 was annointed with blessed healing oil and prayed over tonight at a consectation service by the Senior Associate Pastor of Sugar Hill UMC, Rev. Marylane Brooks and the Healing Rooms At Sugar Hill team. Nine members of the team were present and received the blessing: Angel Johnson, Tom Wilson, Donna Wilson, Pam Smith, Cynthia George, Joan Cason, Lisa Stamper, Sheila Williams, and Dr. Bill Williams.

Transformed By Grace and Love is the theme of our mission this year and we will be ministering God's love to those whose hearts have been broken. We enlist your support for intercessory prayer as we embark on this mission in the coming days.

Kenya Mission 2010

2010-08-07T13:15:00.005-04:00

Is A Kenya Dental Mission In Your Future?

Can you imagine pulling 645 teeth in a week, especially if you are just a freshman in dental school?

Who would have thought that ten years after our initial landing in Kenya for our first dental mission to the legendary Masai tribe that we would be celebrating Kenya Medical Outreach’s 15th mission trip with a KMO alumni cookout at our home in Suwanee, GA and planning our 16th for the summer of 2011?

Why do we fly eight hours to London, nine hours to Nairobi and drive six hours over tarmac and dirt roads to reach the “Forgotten People” of Olmekenyu?

Why do 23 Americans from all walks of life save, sacrifice, do odd jobs, send out letters for support, fundraise, and do whatever it takes to gather the $4000 it takes to go on the mission trip, some year after year after year?

Why would a young Masai man escort his wife 40 kilometers across the border from Tanzania to the remote village of Morijo in Kenya arriving in the dead of night to see the mission team from America?

Why would 2000 people line up outside out hospital clinic in the heat of the African summer on the equator?

Why would our full time missionaries in Kenya wait with Leonard, our patient from Olmekenyu who had his nose eaten away by tuberculosis, for six days in a dank, dark Nairobi hospital while the boy was examined and the diagnosis confirmed?

Well, the questions could go on and on, but the bottom line is that we offer hope to the tens of thousands who live in the land of the Masai Mara and its surrounding environs. We came to a long forgotten area of Kenya over a decade ago and we never left. Many years have passed; many have traveled to this exotic land with us. Typically, one third of our 20-25 Kenya Medical Outreach mission teams are alumni now, one third are our friends from our area (Atlanta, Georgia) who have never been on our mission, and one third are, amazingly, strangers who found out about our trips from either the suwaneedental.com or kenyamo.com web site. They take a leap of faith and sign up with us sight unseen. Our team members have come from California, Florida, Missouri, Boston, Dallas, Mississippi, the Carolinas, Tennessee and beyond.

The makeup of our team is typically this: one dentist (DMD or DDS), maybe two, a few predental students, some high school students, several teachers or housewives, a physician (MD or DO), three nurses (RN or LPN), perhaps a dental hygienist (RDH) and either a nurse practitioner (NP) or a physian’s assistant (PA). Pastors, businessmen and pharmacists may round out the group in any particular year.

What is a typical day like on the mission field? In Olmekenkyu, we built three bunkhouses and have a kitchen / dining hall for serving our team breakfast. The number of patients for dental and medical services builds as the morning dawns and by 8:00 a.m. fifty are in line. We finish our toast, boiled or fried eggs, Kenya tea and by nine o’clock when we begin seeing patients, there are three hundred in the line. We divide into medical, dental, optometry, worming stations. Some of our team hike up the hill to the Olmekenyu Primary School to work with the students, teach, lead Bible Study, or meet with the school administrators about projects we support like water tanks, glass window installations for classrooms or concreting floors.

The dental team is six or seven team members strong. We work with a local dentist, Dr. Daniel from Narok, as our coverage on the mission and we have an ample number of surgical instruments donated by Dr. Arun Nayyar and others to perform extractions, although we have my portable Asceptico dental unit for fillings and scaling. Our system is this: we numb ten patients, extract, numb ten patients, extract, numb ten patients, extract. We go for hours like that, doing mostly simple extractions, sometimes surgical extractions and an occasional filling or ultrasonic scaling. Tea time is honored as our team takes a break at 11:00 a.m. and then lunch at one or two in the afternoon. Our team usually has a designated camp cook and the food is generally outstanding, even when local produce and meats such as chicken, lamb and goat are in the offering.

The experience for non-dental folks in the dentistry department is memorable. Getting up-close and personal with the how-to and techniques of exodontia is a certainty. Pulling a tooth is common for lay folks on our mission trips. Dental students become fully capable and competent to handle almost any extraction after being on one of our mission teams. The experience is worth a fortune to any dental student ready to graduate into the real world of private practice; just ask Matt Milner from the Medical University of Mississippi School of Dentistry, Hubert Park from Tufts University School of Dentistry or Caroline Norment from the Medical University of South Carolina School of Dentistry.

The opportunity to give back to others who have no ability to receive but by the grace of God those dental services we offer is why we do what we do. In the areas we go to, there is no dentist, no physician to see them; there are no instruments, no supplies, no anesthetics, no clinics where people can seek help for even a simple tooth ache. They are left with primitive options by untrained nurses who have inadequate tools for the job. Where we go, we try to train the nurses and give them a set of proper instruments for tooth removal. We show them the techniques for gaining adequate dental anesthesia so that their extractions are painless. It’s the least we can do because we’ll be gone in a few days….until next year.

In Kenya, at the equator, the sun sets at six o’clock, so we try to be completed by then each day. More than once we’ve worked by flashlight in the dark. Each day we may see over 100 dental patients and 200 medical patients in our clinics. Its rewarding as well as tiring. The dinner hour is a time of reflection on the day and talking about what transpired in our individual clinics. Man, the stories we hear - the tales that are told! There is never a dull moment on mission in Africa.

To learn more about Kenya Medical Outreach, Inc. go to www.kenyamo.com or www.suwaneedental.com/kenya/2010.html

Bill Williams, DMD, MAGD

Director, Kenya Medical Outreach, Inc.
Founder, Suwanee Dental Care
Founder, Solstice Dental Advisors

Velo A Hit At Fundraiser for KMO

2010-03-05T18:28:00.006-05:00

Andy Velo headlined a fundraising effort to raise money for Kenya Medical Outreach mission team going to Kenya in May of this year. Twentytwo friends, neighbors and family were in attendance at the home of Dr. and Mrs Bill Williams of Suwanee, GA as Andy told the group about his vision for his rising country rock music career, his plans to go with KMO to Africa this summer and be their director of music and song leader as well as helping in the dental and medical teams.

Anyone wishing to assist this year's team can donate at the web site, Kenyamo.com. Previewed at the session were the first film documentary by Tyler Williams and Chase Andrews and Andy Velo's hot off the press promotional video starring him and his band.

Tyler and Chase will be completing six or seven 5-8 minute video segments featuring the Kenya lumminaries they interviewed, the KMO projects that have been our focus over the past ten years, and the towns, cities, villages and regions they visited while there in Feburary 2010. Stay tuned for more exciting info about the long video...a documentary on Kenya Medical Outreach, 2010.

Trip to Kenya

2010-02-16T11:35:00.001-05:00

Hi all,

I am leaving today for a 10 day trip to Kenya with Chase Andrews of Remedy Films. We will be heading to the airport in just a few hours. I am excited to be back in Kenya again and even more excited to tell you that we are going to be capturing the story of KMO on film. Chase is an amazing videographer and he has given his time to come help us make this trip a great success. I ask that each of you pray for us to have great weather and for safety as we travel throughout different regions of the country. Check out the KMO website around the end of March as we should have some video up by then.

We are also doing a food outreach while we are there. We are trying to raise funds to feed over 180 families. A family unit is considered to be around 7 people so we are talking about feeding over 1,000 people. We need $1,250 for this outreach to happen. We have already raised $500 so we only need $750. If you have the ability please consider giving to this amazing opportunity to show God's love to His people even if it is only $10. We can use all the support we can get.

You can donate online with a credit card at http://kenyamo.com/donatenow.php

Thank you for your support and prayers.

I am also sick with flu like symptoms so pray that I will be feeling better by the time we land.

Regards,
--
Tyler Williams

Look Out Kenya, Andy Velo is Coming to Town

2010-02-07T13:50:00.003-05:00

Andy Velo, rising country rock and gospel singing star is coming to Kenya with our KMO team this year. A local Suwanee native, Andy has been our friend in Sugar Hill United Methodist Church for the past ten years and a patient in our Suwanee Dental Care office most of that time. He is right at this moment going through some major dental realignment with the Invisalign system of orthodontics as a part of The Velo Project. Read all about it on the blog link there.

Andy will be our worship leader, music director and song leader for this year's KMO mission team. His sound is unique, a blend of Creedence Clearwater Revival and Jethro Tull, with a bit of Brad Paisley and Travis Tritt on the side. He knows the classics and is a singer songwriter too, having penned Southern Thing and recorded it this year. Kenya has got a treat in store when Andy comes to town. Be sure to look for Andy's music on the local radio stations in the Southeastern USA, especially around metro Atlanta as well as his personal concert appearances.

2009-11-08T15:09:00.003-05:00

Christmas in kenya

SANTA TO VISIT WOMEN’S PRISON IN KENYA

Dollie and Penny have started a prison ministry in Kenya, and have taken hope to the women there. Many have their children in prison with them as there is no one to take the child in. They plan to teach the living Word of God and show his everlasting love by taking in gifts of underwear, hygiene products and other needed items as well as a small gift for the kids there. Each gift of $15 would help one prisoner of hope and her child.

KMO Charity Golf Tournament

2009-09-27T16:46:00.002-04:00

Tyler has created a big stir among golfers in Georgia...the first annual Kenya Medical Outreach Charity Golf Tournament to be held at Legacy Course at Lake Lanier Islands. Click on this link for all the information. I have a request of all of you in the KMO blog here. Will you take this link below, click on it, read it and then copy the link and forward it with your good will in email form to as many of your friends and business contacts as possible. I would love to see this be fully enrolled as a major fundraiser for KMO so that we can do many more good works in Kenya next year. As a team, we can all put together and make a good showing for the Lord. Amen! Good work Tyler in putting the content and concept together. Good work Doug in doing the graphics work you did! And many thanks to Virgil and his family for hosting us at Lake Lanier Islands this year.

Tabula Before --After Surgery

2009-06-13T19:27:00.004-04:00

At the 2001 Morijo dental clinic this Maasai lady, Tabula, presented with an osteoma that was 10cm x 12cm x 4cm attached to her left maxilla. We got her transported to Kijavi Regional Hospital and guaranteed payment for removal of the tumor.

Many trips to the hospital, many false starts and two surgeries later, the job was completed at Kenyatta Hospital. She received her denture with teeth and an obturator to fill the large hole in her maxilla in early 2009. We saw her for the first time with a normal countenance on our most recent mission trip to Kenya in June.

Kenya Team's Triumphant Return

2009-06-13T19:12:00.005-04:00

Nineteen of us each max out our limit of two duffle bags of 50 lbs. each plus our carry on knapsacks full of medical and dental supplies, food and a few clothes. The Rift Valley of Kenya, our destination, is 5000 feet above sea level. We were just south of the equator and the weather is cool in the evenings and mornings, perfect in the daytime, much like Atlanta in the spring. This land of the Maasai and Kipsigi tribes is neither jungle nor desert. It is the forested foothills and grasslands of the Maasai Mara and Serengeti Plains of East Africa.

My brother, Brad Williams, a minister, and his wife, Christina, a physician, built a hospital in Olmekenyu, Kenya in 2000. My wife and I took our first dental mission trip there in June 2001. We returned a year later with a team of 30, including two dentists, a physician, four nurses and three dental assistants. Last Saturday night we returned from our eight trip to Kenya. This was the first year my entire family joined us…Sheila my wife, Justin and Tyler, my sons who are 27 and 25. We showed the Jesus film again in a new village.

Our team flies through Amsterdam into Nairobi. Picked up in Toyota Land Cruisers and four-wheel drive minivans by our excellent drivers, we immediately head out into the bush to Olmekenyu where the medical/dental clinic building has been built. The drive begins over good roads, then fair roads, then dirt roads, then muddy roads. Driving in Kenya is hazardous to your timetable. You never know if you will be stuck in the mud or not. This is especially true in rainy season…like now.

We stop off in Narok, the district capital, to pick up Dr. Daniel Chepkeygon, our legal means of practicing dentistry in Kenya without going through much red tape. He is invaluable as far as diagnosis, translation, anesthesia and extractions.

Our first visit to Olmekenyu in 2001, on our first afternoon, we saw 46 patients, working until 8 p.m. with flashlights as the rain clouds darkened the sky by 6 p.m. The next day, we worked two shifts, morning and afternoon, and saw 112 patients, all for extractions. All in all, we saw 252 patients and removed 600 teeth. Daniel diagnosed and anesthetized 90% of them and I extracted 90% of the teeth. Since that year, we have returned annually and found that the community is much healthier and more prosperous. Our doctors, nurses and dentists are making a difference there. They say its but a drop in the bucket, but the bucket is nearly full…now.

From Olmekenyu we usually go to Morijo near the border of Tanzania. This is the isolated land of the Maasai still much like it was 100 years ago. There had never been a dentist visit this area. Our first patient in Morijo, Tabula, had a 10 year-developing osteoma of the maxilla. She had walked over 20 kilometers to see us that day. Her tumor was the size of a small grapefruit on the left side of her face. Not being equipped to do advanced surgery there, we took up a collection among our team and sent her to a mission hospital seven hours away by Land Cruiser. What a blessing it was for us to see her the next year with the first of her two surgeries completed. Half of the tumor had been removed. Many trips to the hospitals in Nairobi later and many years passed before she was able to navigate through the Kenyan medical system and get her second surgery to complete the removal of the tumor and get her needed denture made.

The trip in 2009 was quite similar to our first trip other than the fact that we are taking 22 in four vehicles versus seven in one Land Cruiser. One difference this year is that we are working in Sakutiek, an area of an orphanage, seeing as many as 1000 children for care in three days. At the end of our trip we ventured much farther north than in previous years to work at OlMaran and the Kuki Gallmann Nature Conservancy. You may remember that she wrote the book, I Dreamed of Africa, and that Kim Basinger played her in the movie.

Here are the results of what we accomplished on our latest trip in 2008 and 2009:

Medical Mission: 2008 - A team of one physician, one nurse practitioner, three nurses and four support personnel triaged, evaluated, and examined 1200 patients. In Olmekenyu, 512 patients were treated and in Morijo, 400. The total number of conditions and diseases diagnosed was 84 with 111 cases of worms, 93 wounds, 78 of otitis media, 52 of bronchitis, 29 of typhoid and 20 cases of scabies topping the list. Interestingly, there were only a few diagnosed cases of HIV and malnutrition did not seem to be a significant problem in the areas we visited. 2009 – One nurse practitioner and two nurses plus one local physician evaluated and treated 1500 patients in three villages.

Dental Mission: 2008 - A team of one dentist, me, Dr. Daniel and one dental student from Nairobi worked for 7 clinic days with our team and examined 485 patients with 699 teeth extracted, 20 teeth filled. This year we had a portable generator to run our halogen headlight for dental loops and a portable dental unit with high and low speed, air-water syringe and oral evacuator. Ah, the advances of modern dentistry on wheels! 2009 – we added two additional dental students this year for half our trip and treated 560 patients completing 860 extractions, 50 fillings, 20 full mouth ultrasonic scalings, 3 lingual frenectomies and 1 root canal.

50% of the teeth were extracted due to caries, 40% due to periodontal disease and 10% due to orthodontic wishes of the patients. It was interesting that the Kipsigi to some degree and the Maasai to a larger degree do not consider a crowded look and especially a “fangy” look to be attractive. They always want the most misaligned tooth removed.

A smile that the Maasai find attractive is that of an open space in the lower front teeth. It is common for two teeth to be removed for cosmetic reasons in their culture. The locals told me that the reason has to do with a common practice from many years ago. When someone would get “lockjaw” they would knock out the two lower central incisors to allow a straw to feed them. It became a status symbol to have those teeth removed. Later, it became a fashion statement.

The ongoing development of Mercy Hospital in Olmekenyu was the highlight of the entire mission. In 2002, the tile was laid on the floor and the pharmacy interior was constructed. Upon our return in June 2004, the cistern was completed; the refrigerator installed to keep medications and vaccines cool, the solar panel/battery system was in operation to keep the refrigerator running. Since our last visit cellular telephone service has come to the town and the hospital. Also this year we have funded two full-time nurse’s positions at the clinic.

As you can tell, it was a very busy time. We did a children's outreach - feeding 300 children in one village and did a Bible study with them: 125 were saved! The Tembea Na Yesu (walk with Christ - a 3 day spiritual retreat) had 56 people in attendance. There were local pastors and community leaders in attendance. It was a wonderful event for them and for those of us who participated by teaching: Brad, Lisa, Hayden, Sheila, myself and leaders from Sotik in Kenya where previous Tembea Na Yesu's have been held. We are partnering with local churches and pastors in one of the villages to help take care of 12 orphans. The pastors are finding homes and overseeing their care and we will provide funds for their school fees, uniform and monthly food allowance for the family who takes them in. If this works well, we will fund more for the following year and try to get pastors in other villages to do the same thing. The funds that are given to towards the orphans.

As we work, we find more needs than can be met. But what we realize is that we made a difference each year for a handful of people. Individuals are healthier; they are alive; they are learning from us as we learn from them. We are making friends that impact our lives as equally as we do theirs. I hope you’ll visit our web sites and meet our friends.

Other web sites about the mission:

KenyaMedicalOutreach.ning.com

Afdd.com/kenya/2009.html

Wbwilliams on Twitter

William B. Williams on Facebook

Donations are tax deductible, are welcomed and can be sent to KMO c/o

Bill Williams, DMD, MAGD

Director: Kenya Medical Outreach, Inc a Georgia registered non-profit charity

200 Johnson Road

Suwanee, GA 30024

Team Meeting for Kenya Mission Team 2009

2009-03-09T23:16:00.002-04:00

March 22, 2009 will be the team meeting for the Kenya Medical Outreach, Inc. team going to Kenya in May-June of this year. We still have room on our team for more travel team members, more support team members and of course, prayer partner team members. Do join us if you can at our home, 200 Johnson Road, Suwanee,GA 30024 at 2:00 - 4:00 p.m. Sunday afternoon.

Learn about Kenya, learn about yourself, learn about Jesus and His plan for you.

Are you following Dollie and Penny's Blog in Kenya?

2009-03-01T13:26:00.002-05:00

Penny saved a cow in Narok. Preaching at Happy Church. Tabula's surgery and facial reconstruction. Leonard's fight against TB of the face. Israel trip for prayer. Getting a driver's license in Kenya. All this and more on their blog....log in and subscribe now.

blessings to all, in Christ Jesus,

Bill Williams, DMD, MAGD
Director Kenya Medical Outreach, Inc.

Suwanee Dentist Receives Ron Lamb Award from Christian Dental Society

2009-01-24T23:05:00.001-05:00

Penny and Dollie in Kenya Blog

2009-01-24T23:02:00.001-05:00

New Member for Kenya Mission Team 2009

2009-01-16T23:39:00.002-05:00

Welcome to Brandon Ware of Monroe, GA as the tenth member of the 2009 mission team to Kenya with Kenya Medical Outreach, Inc. Click on his page link at http://kenyamedicaloutreachk.ning.com for more information about the trip and his plans.

Countdown has begun...its 2009 already

2009-01-10T22:05:00.002-05:00

Well, the cat is out of the bag...old tomcat 2009 is here and scratching to go. Our mission team to Kenya is well under way in its development. We still need a medical physician to signup and be on the team. I do have two dentists talking to me about going...that's wonderful for me! I know we will have a full team this year, so do get your reservations in early, soon, asap.

Sheila and I leave for Honduras in less than three weeks...a tuneup for Kenya as they say. I want to make our visit to Kenya be extra special this year. The people need more during this draught than ever before. We can be the hand and the feet of Jesus to many. Won't you join us, in prayer, in service and in support in some way? KMO is counting the days down...132 days left......

blessings to all, in Christ Jesus,
bill williams, dmd
director, KMO

KMO Ning Blog...You Gotta See This

2008-12-22T06:18:00.005-05:00

Ning is a fantastic platform and has high functionality. Please take a moment and look at this and become a member. If you love KMO, this is the best place to follow what we are doing. Do it now, you'll not regret it:)

2008-04-19T17:51:00.001-04:00

Ten signed up to go this year to Kenya with us. Way to go team! Over half are alumni of previous years.

Post election fall out leaves many homesless, hungry, and without clothing

2008-01-22T15:45:00.000-05:00

The post election riots between the tribes in Kenya has left many of our friends and their families without homes and clothing as the violence turned to arson and savage rioters destroyed everything in their path.

We are calling for emergency help and funding to ship containers of clothing and food to Kenya.

Please contact Sheila Williams at (678) 858-3383 to see how you can help.

The Forgotten People

2007-12-17T15:05:00.000-05:00

We love going to Kenya each year to serve the Kipsigi and Masai people. Both of these tribes have such sweet spirits. We felt like the people in the villages we go to have been forgotten even by their own government. It is hard to get to these two villages so they were not be checked on on a regular basis. They are so grateful for the help and support we give them each year with their medical, dental, eduacational, and spiritual concerns. We go to bless them and show them God's love for them but I think we are the ones who receive the largest blessing. They now know that even if others forgot about them,God never did; that's why He sent Kenya Medical Outreach to show them His love. They now have hope and their outlook on life has changed. God is good to all His children. If you are interested in joining us in 2008 for one of our short term mission trips,Let us know! We now feel like we are going to visit family each year. Come be a part of our extended family.

Kenya to Lead Eastern Africa into a New Day of Prosperity

2007-12-12T10:36:00.000-05:00

Jamhuri a day for deep reflection

Publication Date: 12/12/2007

Forty Four years ago today, Kenya became an independent country. The last shackles of colonialism were dismantled and a brand new member of the family of nations became not just free, but also responsible for its own destiny.

That is really what independence is all about. An anniversary like today’s, of course, is occasion for great pride and celebration.

But it should also be an occasion for quiet and sober reflection. We have undoubtedly made great strides as a nation. Kenya has remained largely stable and peaceful. Democracy has become well-entrenched, and everyone is free to participate in politics.

Basic human rights are respected and the people enjoy remarkable freedom of expression and association. A strong civil society and a robust free press provide powerful checks on the political class.

The economy is doing relatively well, and that, combined with a modern communications infrastructure, makes Kenya the fulcrum of the wider eastern African region.

Indeed, Kenya enjoys in this region the same kind of importance and stature as that held by Nigeria in West Africa, Egypt in North Africa, and South Africa in the lower half of the continent.

That is no mean achievement. But how far we have come since independence must be weighed against how far we could actually have gone.

And then things do not look so remarkable. We are ahead of our neighbours, not because we have done anything significant, but because some of them handled their affairs in a particularly awful way.

The fact is that while all economic and social indicators look good compared to those of our neighbours and the rest of the continent, we have fallen short in many areas, and in some, we have even gone backwards.

We should be measuring ourselves, not against other nations which have under-performed, but against the success stories that, at independence were at the same stage of development but have now left us far behind.

Those are the standards we need to look at as we assess Kenya’s achievements at 44.

National Election News from Kenya

2007-12-12T10:27:00.000-05:00

Embassy's No to aid for women

Tue, December 11, 2007

By SAM KIPLAGAT

Last updated: Tue, Dec 11, 2007 21:39 PM (EAT)

Scores of women candidates were disappointed when American ambassador Michael Ranneberger turned down a request to fund their political campaigns.

The parliamentary candidates had travelled from across the country to Mr Ranneberger’s residence at Muthaiga, Nairobi, hoping to receive some financial assistance.

But the ambassador stood his ground during the Monday evening meeting, saying he would be contravening his country’s laws if he directly supported any candidate. Mr Ranneberger said the US embassy would only lobby for a level playing field for all those participating in the December 27 General Election.

New Programs for 2008

2007-12-04T16:32:00.000-05:00

We are excited to offer KMOs first ever internship programs for college students to travel to Kenya and spend a semester in Nairobi with KMOs full time missionary team. Student Interns will participate in evangelical and medical missions work as well as the day to day operation of a regional office of a Nonprofit Organization.

Intern applicants who are unable to travel internationally may stay stateside and work in the Atlanta office in fund raising and member services.

KMO Sends Full Time Missionaries to Nairobi

2007-12-04T16:20:00.001-05:00

Kenya Medical Outreach takes it's first huge step toward increasing operations in Kenya. Two full time missionaries will be operating out of Nairobi beginning this month and will bolster KMOs efforts to provide quality medical services and develop sustainable communities in the Masai Mara region.
Full time missionaries will add accountability to the villages which receive aid from KMO each year and will help ensure success of social and medial programs instituted in Olmekenyu and Marijo.

Description of KMO

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Kenya Medical Outreach is a 501(c)3 non profit organization who develops infrastructure and community resources to allow the growth and sustainability of villages in Kenya as well as the growth mentally, physically, and spiritually of the individual.

KMO serves as a facilitator or government relations between the remote villages and Government of Kenya obtaining necessary permits and rights to build hospitals and clinics, water treatment and delivery facilities, educational facilities, community marketplaces, and engage in physician recruitment to serve in remote villages.

KMO also sends teams of volunteers and Doctors to Kenya to support its care, development, and evangelical efforts.