On International Medical Relief’s most recent trip to a remote village in sub-Saharan Africa, a young boy between the ages of one and two, was brought in to our clinic by his mother on our first day in country. He sustained second degree burns on both of his legs and arms from scalding hot water earlier that morning. The boy was not crying, but was listless, and limp. After being rehydrated he became more alert. While tending to his wounds, the boy began to cry and move about, a sign we were so happy to see that we didn’t mind

IMR Continues To Support Pregnant Women And Mothers In The Koh Rong Paul and Heidi made a house call on another possible baby delivery. After searching for the labouring mother to no avail, they returned to clinic where the mother-to-be awaited their arrival anxiously. She wanted them to deliver her baby, but was not quite in labor for that to happen. Women in this large village give birth at their homes. Although in other villages there is a TBA (traditional birth assistant), here, in the most populated village of the Koh Rong, there is profoundly the absence of a TBA.

It was the end of a long, but rewarding day on our third day of clinic. The cold rain lashed down on the Kenyan landscape creating a gray veil that was hard to see through. As we were preparing to close clinic for the day, a young 15 year old mother appeared in the rain carrying a 5 week old newborn boy named, “Luke”. Her family and the baby’s father had abandoned them due to the sickness of the baby. She had been walking for hours in the drenching rain to get help and it was immediately apparent that the