Providing health care to 20,000 Kibera residents

One day before our visit, I call and talk to Mohamed, the CEO of Carolina for Kibera. He is more that willing to meet our team and so he gives us an appointment to meet him and his team. As we approach the offices, we notice about three four-wheel drive vehicles with diplomatic number plates parked outside the offices...

Friends and colleagues, Many of you have called or e-mailed asking for information and sending your thoughts and prayers to the Carolina for Kibera (CFK) staff and volunteers who are on the ground in the Kibera slum of Nairobi, Kenya. Thank you for your solidarity and support. To our knowledge CFK staff and...

Helen Snow, head of development for University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Medicine, and Deborah Sams recently visited Carolina for Kibera at Tabitha Medical Clinic in Nairobi. In a post on CFK's blog about their impressions of CFK and Kibera, Helen and Deborah explain, "What struck us as we met with each of these...

CFK's Tabitha Clinic would like our supporters in the United States to get to know the staff on the ground in Kibera. CFK Advisory Board member, Brett Bullington, sent us this video of a mini-interview he did with the Tabitha Clinic Pharmacist, Frederick Ochenge. Meet Frederick by clicking on the link to the video below!

We just got these photos in from a couple of our volunteers this week! Kyle Bullington, a high school student from Silicon Valley CA and volunteer with our Youth Sports Program, stopped by the construction site with Tabitha Medical Clinic Director, Hillary Okhidi, after soccer practice yesterday. Although the clinic...

The Carolina for Kibera (CFK) Tabitha Medical Clinic formalized a partnership with the U.S. Center for Disease Control and Prevention's (CDC) International Emerging Infections Program. As a part of the CDC's effort to track and target specific causes of morbidity in Kibera through an ongoing household surveillance program,...