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Issue No: 849 Published: 31 Jan 2018

REPORT FROM THE KINGDOM HEALTH FOUNDATION - JANUARY 2018

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KINGDOM EYE AND GENERAL CLINIC

MALAHA VILLAGE, WEBUYE

Report No. 5 - January 2018

Dear PGIM Readers, Supporters and Friends

January has been a month of huge progress taking us much nearer to a finished building. Another 10 days should see completion!

As we approach the finishing touches, reality is appearing before our very eyes, through the generosity of you our friends and supporters. Let us again run through the month in pictures.....

Plastering the front entrance pillars

Building the walls of the septic tank

Ceiling runners up

Improvement to the African Latrines. A front wall.

Plastering the 4m deep septic tank walls & bottom

The well drillers arrive. Top quality rig.

Now ready for one of the big moments of the whole project. Will they find water at the 110m level predicted by the Geologist and what will the flow rate be. Kathy and I watched pipe by pipe for the day it took to drill.

Down, down, down.....

Liquid life, as the bore blows!

Water found at 95m at an amazing flow rate of 10,000 litres per hour, instead of the 5,000 predicted!

There she flows!

Bore complete with 7,000lph Grundfos pump

Watering the final plastered floor.

Many hand basins being installed.

ELECTRICITY

This is a huge challenge for us!

Power here is notoriously unreliable, both through power outages & often, low voltage when it is working.

We have kilometres of wiring.

Plus sophisticated control systems on the pumps as shown.

A large generator is also required.

While the apparent changes in this picture may not look great from last month, I can assure you they are huge. The obvious change is the installation of single sided glass, (so that we can look out but no-one see in). The waste plumbing is now encased in concrete in the red shelf at the bottom, the stones pointed and cleaned, so it is now ‘looking a million dollars’, actually many million in Kenyan shillings!

Practicing latrine squats in front of one way window glass

African Latrines. How is your aim?

Ceiling up ready for painting

Floor tiles delivered and ready to be laid.

Septic tank finished – apart from inspection covers.

LAND PURCHASE

An additional 1.6 acres of land, to give access to the main road, plus room for future expansion. This was necessary now, for the land was about to be split into small lots.

ROUND AND ABOUTâ€¦..

It has been a very busy month for us on the building site, as I guess you can understand from the progress photos above. ‘All work and no play makes….’ pretty much sums up our lot this month. However a few photos of other activities follow.

Undoubtedly the highlight has been the visit of the Tovey kids (actually adults) who stayed overnight a couple of days ago. It was great to be able to be able to speak to people from our home country of New Zealand. They have been our first Kiwi visitors. We had such a fun time together.

King sized cabbages growing in the greenhouse!

The pig met its maker for a large birthday celebration.

An operating theatre at Real Hospital, Eldoret.

Tim, Rachel & Sam, called in on their Kenyan road trip

CLINIC OPENING

We expect to open the Kingdom Eye & General Clinic, Malaha, mid to later February (African time applies), dependent upon funding, staffing, and regulatory approval.

It is both a challenging and exciting time, walking into the unknown. We are more likely to be overwhelmed rather than underwhelmed with clients, as we have acquired excellent Laboratory equipment at a good price that will attract people to us for good diagnosis.

FINANCIALS

SUSTAINABILITY is the key for meeting ongoing expenses, achieved through patient part charges plus insurance operations. WE THANK SO MUCH OUR VERY GENEROUS DONORS.

‘SUSTAINABILITY‘ IS A KEY DIFFERENCE BETWEEN THIS & OTHER AFRICAN PROJECTS

We hugely appreciate all our donors and supporters. The project has grown to be so much more than anticipated through your generous donations to date of $NZ180,000.