The village of Eburru is in the bush. In American terms that equates to “the sticks”, “the boonies” or “middle of nowhere”. All of which pretty adequately describes the remoteness of it. So, it is interesting that one of Camp Brethren Ministries’ (CBM) ongoing service projects is making the clinic mobile and taking it to remote villages. Can you get more remote than Eburru? The answer is yes. On December 9^th, we packed up the Landcruiser with medical supplies and equipment, and left our area of the bush to venture deeper into the bush to this small remote village (below).

The mobile clinic had visited this village a few weeks prior doing much of the same: vaccinating infants, diagnosing toddlers and treating adults as best possible. And the locals apparently marked the return date on their calendars. When we arrived, thirty or so mothers with their infants were waiting for us in the two room mud schoolhouse. Quickly the schoolhouse was transformed into a clinic; waiting room and baby weighing station in the front, nurse consultation in the back. Each of the infants this day were getting a variety of vaccinations including Diphtheria, tetanus and whooping cough. No magazines, smooth jazz or tropical fish tank in this waiting area. Just an american muzungu weighing children before they get checked in with a nurse and are given the vaccinations. Without the mobile clinic most of these children would not have any access to medical treatment in the critical early stages of their life.

While the clinic is underway some of us with no medical skills visited with the locals in the village. Between games of pool (yes, they had an outdoor pool table), some goong goong fado (uh, sp?) (cards) and black cat (cards) we shared about Jesus and the Lord’s goodness in our lives.

Below are a few images from the day.