Clinics, Medicine & Health
OPTICAL CLINICS
Regular mobile clinics are held by WTM in surrounding villages of Kisumu. The photograph in the centre shows the queue of people waiting to find a pair of glasses to suit their needs.
Each person is given an eye test to check that glasses are genuinely needed before being shown to the table where all glasses are laid out. These are previously used glasses so it may take some time to find the right strength or prescription. In the photograph above you can see a man checking out his new glasses by reading Roger's Bible.
The queues are often hundreds of people long and often, lives are changed for those who find a pair of prescription glasses to enable them to see properly.
Glasses donated to WTM are taken to Kenya by Roger himself to ensure they get to where they are needed.
HEALTH CLINICS
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Shortly after founding the charity, Roger was given permission from the Kenyan government to administer medicine to the Kenyan people. The WTM health clinics were born.
Medical clinics are held regularly in Kisumu giving aid to the local people who otherwise would not be seen as all medical help has to be paid for.
Roger and his volunteers have treated so many people for different injuries, infections and other maladies that we could not possible address them all here. The boy in the photograph below left has been given first aid after receiving a gun shot wound from a stray bullet that passed straight through. He was understandably traumatised! Luckily Roger and his team were in the village and he recovered. Others are not so lucky.
A young boy from a local village attended the clinic on another occasion with an eye infection. Unfortunately he lost his eye as he hadn't received medical help until it was too late. A simple course of antibiotics would have cured the problem with ease but there wasn't a doctor in his village and his family couldn't afford the medication. The WTM would have provided them free of charge.
Your donations help us to save lives by buying medicines for our clinics. Please donate and save lives.
MALNUTRITION
The biggest plague in Kenya is still starvation! Easily preventable with food and fresh water but the people here have no income and no way of getting food. This is the result. Too many children have come to the clinic suffering from malnutrition, Parents unable to provide food for their children. The short term solution is obvious - provide food!
The long term solution is to provide education so that an income can be earned to help the people provide for themselves.
This shouldn't be a problem in our modern world but it is and it must be stopped.
PREVENT POVERTY & SAVE LIVES
Basic First Aid classes have now been held in the school which have proved very popular and successful with the local people who are keen to join.
