- Vision for Kenya was selected to receive a grant application for $14,000 from Valparaiso University Student led organization SALT. SALT is The Social Action Leadership Team (SALT) a social justice ministry. Students in SALT serve as the leadership team that invites Valpo students to engage in Christian service both near and far. SALT is involved in local volunteering, spring break service trips and church-based community organizing
- Executive Director, Jacob Sitati will be meeting with the Director and Board of Lugulu Hopsital in March to begin arrangements for the water project to be funded by the SALT fundraising effort.
- Executive Director Jacob Sitati while in Kenya was invited by AIC Githumu Hospital a Mission Hospital established to provide affordable and sustainable, holistic, quality health care services to review their strategic plan and potentially help them in sourcing equipment for their hospital.
- Consideration is underway to support a youth project led by Samuel Ollunga, titled MDG Inc. It is a program that advances and engages in the realization of the Millennium Development Goals as well as helping ordinary people and communities across the world achieve their aims of obtaining and enhancing their source of livelihood and business enterprises towards greater wellbeing and socio-economic fulfillment.
- Planned Directors Meeting Scheduled for November 2011 to review current project progress and determine future projects for the organization.
The spring board meeting was held at the end of February with a focus on finalizing on the strategy document expalaining Vision's policy goals for the organization. Fund raisng efforts for shipment of equipment was also discussed with a goal of finalizing on the fundraising goals and efforts.
Finally, it was decided that planning should go ahead for the shipment of a small quantity of the equipment required to ensure the organizational processes in place are efficient and can deliver before planning on larger shipments.
Summer 2009
(May to September)
Fordam Wara, an Attorney, was voted in as a director to serve on the Board of Vision for Kenya;
Jacob Sitati, Executive Director, came back from a 5 week trip to Kenya, where he met with the Lugulu hospital management team and various government stakeholders who will play a role in the facilitation process of equipment donated to the hospital;
Fall 2009
Vision for Kenya in collaboration with Monaco Youth Group USA and the
African Students Club at North Park University host the annual Chicago
Marathon dinner with elite athletes.
Directors Board meeting planned in October to discuss fundraising for the shipment of equipment solicited.
We specialize in designing healthcare policy initiatives that expand the footprint of healthcare institutions in rural areas. We also assist in sourcing equipment for rural medical centers in order to facilitate their maximal operating efficiency.
Our strength and focus lies primarily in developing pragmatic rural healthcare policy. However, we also match donors of medical equipment with rural medical centers, and we excel at coordinating the transportation and distribution of these much-needed supplies. All medical supplies donated to Vision for Kenya are based on the specific needs of each mission, hospital or clinic, and all of our efforts are tailored towards treating patients in rural areas at minimal cost. Vision for Kenya takes pride in bringing great relief to rural Kenyans by serving the needs of the region’s healthcare facilities.
At Vision for Kenya, we work hand-in-hand with various missions, hospitals and clinics in order to ensure that we not only meet the immediate needs of rural medical institutions, but also that we make a long-lasting contribution and impact that will benefit rural communities for years to come.
We at Vision for Kenya not only have a vision for Kenya, we have the
expertise and dedication to make our hopes and the hopes of many a reality.
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The hospital serves Lugulu Division in Bungoma district of western province
in the republic of Kenya. The area is inhabited by subsitence farmers
who just grow enough for food, with very little surplus to sale for cash
topay for other nesessary basic needs.