Stories from the sub-Saharan: June 2007

Saturday, June 2, 2007

The following two links show videos using a program called gapminder. Both deal with issues of public health - the second specifically about slum life in east Africa.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RUwS1uAdUcI

http://www.gapminder.org/downloads/presentations/a-slum-insight-2006.html

Pre-departure nerves
Safe travel
Physical, spiritual, mental, and emotional wellbeing
Effectiveness in my ability to communicate love cross-culturally and as a result share God’s story of redemption and salvation
Medical school admission
Trust spirit's leading as I interact with beggars (I've mistakenly come up with a list of stipulations required for my assitance to be offered. Conveniently, nobody meets them)
Healing for puncture wound on hand
Knowledge as I reteach myself medical imaging physics, and with that the ability to in turn effectively educate my students
That I'd learn from the plights of social justice movements around the world during the World Social Forum Jan 20-25 in Nairobi
Ability to meet up with friends from north Kenyan village while I'm in Nairobi