Follow-up

Remember Ravette?  She came by for a visit and brought Stephen a pineapple!
She's doing great!

Follow-Up pt 3

Once our patient was in her home, there was still one more thing that needed to be done.

The house was ready, but the outhouse still needed to be mudded.  We found some willing volunteers.

FIELD TRIP!
In place of our normal Thursday afternoon school reading time, followed by art class,
we headed out to the town to do some work. 

The structure was in place, and we just needed to pack mud between the sticks.

Our youngest volunteer shows off her muddy hands.

The kids worked hard, running back and forth between the mud pit and the outhouse with mud, then packing the mud into place to form the walls.

Ian had some girls giggling over him and everything he did.
They seemed to think he was really cute.
He was not amused.

This wall is almost done!

At the end everyone was quite a bit dirtier than when they started.
We got some interesting looks walking back home!

Follow Up- pt 2

Finally, it's time for the young lady mentioned yesterday to go home!

One of the pharmacy workers and Dr. Kiong help Mama Sarah sort out the needed medications.

This was her first time leaving the hospital in months and her first time seeing her new house.

She was happy to see her house.
Now she's ready for the night in her new place!

Follow Up- pt 1

This young lady was mentioned in one of our Random Saturday posts.
She is an Auca, abandoned by her family, with multiple medical problems.
One additional problem was that she had nowhere to live when she was able to leave the hospital.

This is the old house that is falling down and uninhabitable.

Mama Sarah hard at work on the new house.
It's made of sticks stacked to make a frame with mud in-between to fill in the spaces.

The kids came to watch all the fun.

Muddy feet

The house is almost complete, and Mama Sarah and two community health care workers will be able to follow her care at home.

Follow-up

Occasionally, we share pictures of some of the patients in the hospital in our Random Saturday posts.  You may wonder what happens to the people shown.


This young man (12 years old) came in weighing only 50 pounds.
He had a perforated gall bladder, further complicated by bone infections and severe malnutrition.
On top of all that, he also suffers from sickle cell anemia.
He was part of our Random Saturday series in October.

A few months later, he is still in the hospital, but looking much better!

He was able to return home at the beginning of March.
He came by with his friends and brought us a pineapple one Saturday morning.
You would never know it is the same child from the first picture!

Follow up

Now that we've been in Impfondo a while we are starting to see familiar faces when we go on outings to the market or to visit others people. this is a pretty fun. One particular familiar face was particularly satisfying to see. He was one of our patients in the hospital when we arrived in November. He is a refugee who has not let his life circumstances dictate his view on life. He was shot as he was fleeing the Democratic Republic of Congo and ended up losing his right arm secondary to infection and tissue damage.
I showed a picture of him in our Christmas post and he continues to do well. Since it is not safe to go back to his home he began a "boutique" here. We stop by often and try to buy things from him to help him a little. He also has come to church several times as well. Continue to pray for Gerrard and other refugees as they heal physically and leave the hospital. Pray that they continue to remain rooted in God's love. Thanks for you continued prayers for us as well.