Wednesday, June 7th Hi everyone! It’s Foster here again. Last night we picked up Dr. Pruitt at the airport, so today we were in the operating room with a few cases. Having observed in operating rooms in the US before, I was really excited to see what some of the similarities and differences were here

Monday & Tuesday,  June 6th and 7th Hi everyone! It’s Foster here. Apologies for not updating over the past few days, but we’ve all had quite the start to our week! We all started Monday in the chapel at Selian for a short service. It was an incredibly unique experience that I can’t say I’ve

Saturday & Sunday, June 3 and 4, Hi this is Gayle.   Wow the outreach clinics have been unbelievable.  We saw 220 patients in the last two days.  Their stories break your hearts.  They come with debilitating injuries or illness that they have been suffering with for years.  They are not able to get treated

Friday, June 2nd Hi everyone, you’re hearing from Foster again! Today had many obstacles, but through God’s grace and His gifts of patience and perseverance, we were able to work through those challenges and accomplish a lot today. We had a bit of a timing issue early in the morning due to some unexpected challenges

Thursday,  June 1st Hi everyone! Foster here. Today was our first day of the trip, as well as my first full day in Tanzania! I’ve been so incredibly fortunate to learn so much about the culture and people here, and I can’t wait to get to know more and meet many new people as the

A Volunteer Story by Aaron: Everyday can be thought of as a lesson. Early this morning, one of our groups headed out to Selian Hospital for another day of surgeries. God blessed us all with a successful day of operation. We completed a total of eight, amazing surgeries today. Both the nursing students and surgeons

Outreach Volunteer Story by Mama Gayle What an amazing day it has been! We held an outreach clinic out with a Masaii tribe. None of our patients spoke Swahili; they only spoke Masaii so we had to quickly find an interpreter for our care. When we arrived to our clinic, our medical area was filled

Testing the system. gayle

A Hospice Story – From Mama Gayle After my hospital visit, I went over to the hospice office to meet with the staff so we could collaborate together on a family, whose father is in the hospital, paralyzed. His wife is at home all by herself caring for their three small children. When the team

A Hospice Volunteer Experience with Lynn: While the medical people were busy at Salian, Lynn met with the local hospice group. This team diligently cares for about 2,000 patients throughout the four districts of Tanzania. Many of these cases were incredibly difficult and sad to witness. Lynn was able to visit a total of 4

Hospice Story from Volunteer, Emma: Our team has been completing hospice visits this week. Hospice visits in Tanzania are comparable to home health care in the United States. I went on multiple hospice home visits on Monday and Olivia went today. We both saw a lot of really hard cases that broke our hearts. Life

A Medical Story from Volunteer, Emma: The last two days have been a blur. On Monday we saw 120 patients at Selian Lutheran Hospital and today we saw around 80 patients. Clinic was emotionally tough. Our hearts were consistently heavy, as we were constantly reminded that we cannot fix everything. One thing that surprised us