Seizure clinic, the Whiskas, Rainbow Children

Thursday morning I picked up Amayi Whiskas and together with her husband, our beloved Bambo Whiskas, we gave them some little gifts from the US and took them to lunch at Spur. They had chicken and chips! Then a big dish of ice cream for dessert. What a delightful couple!
After lunch, we went to the seizure clinic, which actually went really well - you can translate that into 'I didn't have any difficult patients'!!!  Sherrie took some temps and observed what we do, Emily was assigned the weighing station, so we got good weights on all the kids.
Friday we went out to Rainbow Children's Development, the project that the Kyser family is involved in. They have an orphanage and are teaching some permaculture, along with trying to get the orphanage more self-sustainable. Jeremy is doing a little bit of everything! He will be my new 'go to' man over here!
We checked out all the kids at Rainbow - a few had minor illnesses but most were very healthy. Then we saw a few people from the nearby village, but generally it was pretty tame as far as our usual clinics go! Emily was the pharmacist, with Sherrie doing wound care, malaria tests and helping Emily. After the clinic, I went into a village with the Kysers to check out a chronic wound and to check on a cleft palate / cleft lip child that they are trying to arrange surgery for. Turns out he was too small / malnourished last year so they have gotten him a cleft palate bottle and formula to help with that.  Today (Sat) we go back to the prison then have some US kids over for awhile. whew. I need a vacation!
Please, as you look at these photos, think about YOUR life and what blessings you have. Perhaps you could skip a dinner out and donate to some of these people? The seizure clinic is 'free' but the workers get paid, the medications are bought. This outreach is through Children of Blessing Trust, in Canada.  The Kysers (M-1 Ministries) buy food, formula, clothes, etc for the orphans and some of the villagers. If you are unsure where / how to donate, please contact me!
Enjoy the photos.

 Amayi and Bambo Whiskas at Spur. You can FEEL the love between these two!

 One of the seizure clinic patients. What a beautiful child! Remember, any donations help the kids like this! Children of Blessing Trust.

 Emily at her weigh station.

 Am I really working? Pateint with baby on back, Joyce the translator next to her. The clinic meets in the school, hence the wall decoration and the little table and chairs.

Rainbow Childrens Clinic: A boy from village who was hit by a thrown rock and came in for wound care. Throwing rocks here is a national sport, right behind soccer!

Rainbow Children's clinic. Sweet girl with burns on left arm, axilla and breast area. Any doctors out there reading this, let me know if you know of any contacts for scar revisions in Malawi!

 Again, the clinic meeting in a school area. Emily and Sherrie in the 'pharmacy'.

 Sherrie doing some wound care.

 Jill Kyser has a friend who is a dental hygienist - she checked all the Rainbow kids.

 Sweet little guy from Rainbow!

 One of the village families. This little guy was NOT afraid of me! woohoo!

Kids lined up for fungal cream only

 Old burn scar with chronic wounds - I recommended antibiotic ointment and careful wound care, but any one out there with any other ideas? I have seen this before here and I just don't know if we are adequately addressing it! thanks in advance for any ideas.

 Jill and Jeremy Kyser working on bandaging the above wound = the azungus gather quite the crowd!!

Below, Jeremy Kyser holding the little guy they are 'fattening' up for cleft palate / cleft lip surgery. Pray for him - that he gets the surgeries he needs and they are successful!