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East Africa
Feb-Mar 1999
Marc Schmitke, Swiss Helimission pilot, with Dr. Tim James and volunteer RN's Susan Afentul and Kathi Santoro, as they prepare to fly donated medical supplies to a remote village on Mt. Elgon, near the
Kenya-Uganda border.
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We donated a much needed x-ray
unit to Sr. Freda's Cottage Hospital,
located in the rural village area outside of Kitale, Kenya.
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Volunteer nurse Kathy Nielsen
demonstrates our love and caring. Here, Kathy is with a Kenyan mother
and sick baby daughter.
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Word of our arrival always spreads quickly.
Mothers walk miles from distant villages to have their babies examined and treated by our medical teams. We need donations of DPT, MMR and hepatitis vaccines,
antibiotics, and nutritional supplements.
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Steve Rutenbar and Sr. Freda pass out toys donated by McDonalds at Tumaini Boys Orphanage. These are former street-kids. Their bunkhouse has dirt floors and they cook in a kettle over an open fire. We want to raise $50,000 to help build additional housing for fifty more homeless & abandoned kids.
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