[by Joana]

This month I started my internship at Avenue Hospital. After two whole weeks of pure relaxation, it was difficult for me to adjust back to my early wake up schedule! Haha. I had recently purchased my full EMT trainee uniform; white pilot shirt tucked into navy blue pants and black socks with leather loafers. My first posting was a week and a half in theater! I was extremely nervous as to how I would feel about watching my first operations, but I soon found out that there was no place for me to have qualms.  … [read the full report HERE]

Joana EMT ready..

Cristiana Portuguese Studies

Cristiana, our daughter currently in Portugal, received her diploma on Portuguese Studies from the University of Coimbra and she spent time visiting several of our relatives there. She had the opportunity to get to know many aspects of the Portuguese culture and visit several places including the birthplace of her father… . She also had the opportunity to travel and meet some of the friends she had since Macau and share their mutual experiences.

Cristiana with friends Blondine and Clemence 2013

The narration of the Swahili Bible and the subsequent editing and preparation for up loading was one of our main tasks this months. The actual recording was concluded on the 22nd of this month. This was fruit of hundreds of hours of work by Joseph, our Swahili narrator, in the studio, and Jorge, in the office. We are happy to announce that the audio is now available online to over 100 million Swahili speakers, mainly in Kenya, Tanzania and Uganda.

Hear the Swahili Old Testament.

Our family with the Swahili Recording team: Joseph and the Mwiti Family.

Written by Joana.

Since returning to Kenya in January I have been involved in a course to become an Emergency Medical Technician (EMT-1). I had been looking forward to doing this for a long time and it truly is a dream come true.  My training is being provided by Avenue Hospital, which is a small but very competent health facility that contains one of the best emergency response teams in Nairobi.  Actually, Emergency Medical Systems are relatively new to Kenya.  It was only after the Nairobi bomb blasts in 1998 that the government recognized the need to invest in quality emergency personnel, as well as disaster management plans.  Hence was born Kenya Counsel of Emergency Technicians.

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