Our experience in Kenya was once in a lifetime. It enhanced two facets of my life: professional and personal. Professionally, it taught me the importance of being a community's sole health care provider, and how to expand one's thinking beyond rehabilitation and physiotherapy. We saw and assisted in treating numerous types of conditions ranging from a basketball injury to the knee to HIV induced osteomyelitis. With the limited resources available, we learned to treat individuals without relying on equipment and modalities. We also learned that rehabilitation, socially and physically, is such a key part of the healing process and is still in demand in developing Africa

Personally, we learned to be grateful for the resources and everyday routines we have at home. Although I do not miss the pot-holed roads and crowded buses, I do miss the people. They are the heart of rural Kenya. We admire them for their perseverence through disability and poverty. We complain as we live with all our spoils, yet they can survive with so little, and some with even less. People like the Okidis, their staff and the Kenyans we encountered showed us that community, a common goal and persistence brings about positive change.

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