Our hero of this past year is a second year Med student, who is studying at KeMU (Kenya Methodist University). While KeMU was closed, he cared for Covid patients in isolation in Lodwar, up near Lake Turkana, where his family and home are. Conditions were less than ideal – ventilators were unassembled and in storage, and there was insufficient oxygen for a patient being transferred to Eldoret.

In Kitale, we visited the 50 students who are sponsored by people of St. John Church in Darien, CT. Two of these students, a 13-year-old girl in St. Columban Primary School and a 23-year-old young man in St. Bridget Secondary School, are deaf. At the end of both primary and secondary school, they will write the same National Exams that non-deaf students write.