By Lena AllenDirector, Kunai Health Centre It often happens that a family member will come to our clinic and ask for pain medicine for someone else, and our policy is to review each request case by case. But with Benjamin I always sent a package of Advil with his brother, child or mother. You see, Benjamin […]
Whose Child Is This?
By Lena AllenDirector, Kunai Health Centre Culture and customs vary among the different peoples of the world. As Americans, we fall in love and marry. We have children and hope to live happily ever after. But among the Kamea in Papua New Guinea, even the very definition of “family” can be different. Adorned with a flower […]
Landing Feet First
By Lena AllenDirector, Kunai Health Centre How we thank the Lord for sending rain! It had been weeks and weeks of little or no rain, sometimes washing in the waterfall and re-using laundry water. Little did I realize that my first baby delivery would be in the rain! Often we get requests for transport to the […]