A wonderful example of the holistic work and relationships in this vision is the Maasai Girls Lutheran Secondary School. The young women of the Maasai community have traditionally been valued for their reproductive capacity and are frequently married at a young age. The MGLSS was established to recruit the brightest of the rural Maasai girls and provide them with a quality secondary school education. As the school has matured, Selian Lutheran Hospital has joined with the school to provide counseling and visits around future health careers.
Selian has assisted girls in obtaining medical, nursing, and administrative education. The first fruits of this relationship have started to return as we now have three young women back with us - two who are Clinical Officers and one as a Social Worker. We have another 14 in various training programs through which we will both provide careers for the women and obtain high quality staff for our hospitals. It now looks like we may succeed this year in getting the first two MGLSS graduates into Medical School! They in turn come back to MGLSS as new role models for the upcoming classes. The holistic integration runs throughout our programs.
posted by Brad Down at 7/30/2007 12:34:00 PM
