Trip Notes
NEWS & PAST TRIPS
July 2025
This is our second trip with Dr Starnes and his team joining us. Their team enjoyed the time at Kinondo Kwetu so much last year that they asked to return. We are grateful to have this specialized team with us again. Dr Starnes is able to remove very large goiters...
January 2025
We are happy to share that Dr Cathy Baker has joined our team for this trip. We met Dr Baker in 2021 while volunteering in Cambodia, the same trip where we met Dr Starnes. Dr Baker is a retired OBGYN surgeon, so we were excited to have her expertise and skill set....
July 2024
This trip we were so excited to welcome Dr Fletcher Starnes and his surgical team from Global Healing Hands. This team focuses on complicated goiter surgeries which are common in our patient population. We met Dr Starnes while we both were on a volunteer trip to...
March 2024
First off, our crates arrived! Some of you may remember last year we packed up two wooden crates filled with hundreds of pounds of donations we had been collecting. They arrived at the Nairobi airport in July of last year and have been trapped there. We have been...
September 2023
I’ll start with the bad news so that we can end on a good note. After traveling with ten bags of donations last trip, dad and I decided to try and ship supplies out prior to our arrival so that we could bring larger items and so that we did not have to carry so much....
January 2023
What an amazing first trip! It was so nice to be able to put faces to all the names I have been talking to over these past few months in preparation for our trip. The team welcomed us with open arms and were so excited about having us there. Harrison is in charge of...
Surgical Aid for Kenya
Improving Life for Underserved Populations Through Surgical Interventions