Bware Health Center Maternity Project

Bware is a rural village located in the South Nyanza province of Kenya near the border of Tanzania. The health center is staffed with a Clinical Officer (Physician Assistant) and two nurses. The clinic sees approximately 40 to 50 patients a day. 

In addition,a group of 30 volunteers work within the community dispensing contraception, performing home health activities for sick patients and assisting in the births of babies. One of the biggest identified needs in the community is services to women. To this end the community has been doing fund raising and started construction of a maternity ward.

Over the past 5 years, Dr. Gipson has been helping to support this clinic through donations from friends, colleagues and independent donors for medicines medical supplies and volunteers.

Current Programs:

Kenya Reproductive Health Education Project:

A health education program for the Community Health Workers and Traditional Birth Attendants. The program focuses on improving knowledge and skills to manage health problems in a low resource environment with special emphasis on reproductive health and Safe Motherhood.

Bware Health Center Maternity Ward Construction Project:
Funded through donations and fueled by community labor and ingenuity. This facility, which is under construction, will bring badly needed skilled, emergency obstetrical care to this rural community.

This winter, The Ray of Hope Foundation was blessed to have a dedicated team of trainers from Oregon provide educational training for the Traditional Birth attendants and volunteer community health workers of Bware.