project that has been ongoing in Tanzania by Leon Christianakis. The project
is the building of a hospital which will provide first class medical services
to some of the poorest people in the world. The development of this new
facility with its extensive orthapedic outreach program will expand the
service to the wider community which already sponsors six secondary schools,
two hospitals, and twelve rural dispensaries in the region.
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
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