Testing Day

The mobile clinic counseling tents!

It was the team’s last day of ministry in Masi. Today they helped the Living Hope Health Counselors to facilitate a Testing Day. All week the team and church team invited people in the community to the Celebration last night and to the Free Health Screening today. People could come in for free HIV, TB, Blood Pressure and Blood Sugar Levels tests. The Living Hope Health Counselors are individuals from the community that have been trained to do the screenings and to counsel people as they get their results.  The team brought a very cool craft activity for the adults to do while they waited for their results – people could decorate a pot and plant seeds in it. Such a great gift as it is something they could take and grow at home and not just something that would end up as clutter. The counselors invited us to get tested as well and I jumped at the opportunity for free tests… I’m a missionary now so anything free is good! LOL However, we do encourage our team members to partake in the testing as well as it breaks the stigma and fear in others in getting tested that it is something for the sick and poor. Not making a big deal about it will help break the stigma that we are still fighting.