2010 KMO Service Trip Announcement
KMO Service Trip May22-June 6, 2010 In May, KMO will embark on the 2010 KMO Service Trip. May 22-June 6, 2010 the KMO will leave Atlanta and head for Nairobi before loading up the land cruisers for their final destination in the African bush. The needs are great this year, as Kenya has endured a severe drought month after month with little respite. Agriculture, livestock, dried up river beds, the drought has spared nothing. Men, woman, and children are becoming more and more susceptible to death. The problem and the solution seem so far apart. The people of Kenya need help. T...Read more...
December Food Outreach
By: Dollie Sauls & Penny Martin Narok, Kenya Greetings, Recently a group of college students started hanging out at the house asking questions about God, the United States, and comparing cultures. Out of this gathering KMO started a group for this age bracket to come over during scheduled events and fellowship. Many of these young adults really don’t have a place to fit into at church, so it seemed right to embrace what the Father was doing. At one meeting we discussed the necessity of doing another food outreach to a remote village and most of them r...Read more...
2009 KMO Charity Golf Tournament
By: Tyler Williams KMO hosted the first annual charity golf tournament at Legacy on Lanier Golf Club, Monday, November 4, 2009. The day began with 66 golfers hitting the driving range for a quick warm-up before the event began. Dr. Bill Williams of Suwanee Dental Care, the medical director for KMO gave the invocation and the send of for the players to begin their round. Overcast skies quickly burned off and the players enjoyed a beautiful fall day out on the course. Players made their way around the course and had a shot at winning a new Taylor Made driver in the long drive contest ...Read more...
Drought: Kenya's own banking crisis
By Will Ross BBC News, Turkana district The drought which has hit East Africa is wreaking havoc among the region's pastoralists. Their herds of livestock have been decimated. Even the hardy camels are dying. Turkana district in north-west Kenya is a harsh environment at the best of times. Driving along the sandy roads with temperatures tipping 40C, the air coming through the car window feels like the blast from a load of hair-driers. The landscape is desert-like and the only signs of life are the occasional circular mud huts thatched with grass. There is very little vegetatio...Read more...
Dollie & Penny in Kenya 10/01/2009
Greetings to all, Kenya Medical Outreach has really had a full year of surprises and excitement as we walk this journey we are on in Kenya. Back in February we established a wonderful relationship with Operation Smile that has enable several children with cleft lips and pallets to get evaluated and surgically corrected. All of this occurred through agencies being willing to network. According to Operation Smile, it is difficult to get the information out to the people in the rural areas, so KMO volunteered to post the information posters in Narok South and North to encourage people in h...Read more...