Well Baby Clinic at Matebete

The Chimala Hospital has a department which serves the community with family planning, pre-natal care and infant care.  They also perform mobile clinics 2-3 times per month where they perform education to new mothers and give vaccines to infants.  Weights are also performed on children up to age 5.

Rena and I worked together performing weights.  There were many children to be weighed.  As we began completing the weights, Rena and one of the other staff began sorting through the records for those who needed vaccines and administering them. 

Notice the purple and blue cloth being worn by the ladies.  This is a Masai village.

 

The day was a very good day.  We did have a couple of small "hick-ups" tho.   We all know that young children are sometimes afraid of strangers.  Well many of these children are not only afraid of  strangers, but also may not have seen a "white" person.  So some of the little ones began to cry when Rena or I were close to them.  However, we did make friends with most of them.

It is so cute to watch their faces as they touch us.  Many times a child will rub their hand back and forth on my skin and then look at their hand to see if the "white" comes off.  Precious!