The Cairns family - serving globally through medicine

15/02/2023

Hello all, here's a link to our final newsletter. We're back in the U.S. permanently now. Thanks for following!

We are a physician couple seeking to serve Jesus and live out our faith by volunteering globally - currently in Kenya and Cameroon.

28/01/2022

Our much belated newsletter. We're all doing well, happy to announce a pregnancy due in July. Also stay tuned for more about the Litein Mental Health Initiative doing exciting things in rural Kenya for global mental health!

We are a physician couple seeking to serve Jesus and live out our faith by volunteering globally - currently in Kenya and Cameroon.

30/11/2021

Hey check out our fund-raising campaign to scale-up mental health services in rural Kenya!

In November, Bryan and I had an opportunity to visit AIC Litein Hospital. We are incredibly excited about their facility and committment to mental health from bottom-up. Please consider some end-of-year donations to help us meet our goal so this clinic can open in February 2022!

11/07/2021

We've been in Nairobi, Kenya, for almost 3months, and are starting to feel settled - driving on the left (whoa), navigating the local health-care-system through miscarriage #2 (sadness), watching Lizzie enjoy hours of outside time (joy).

See the attached newsletter for details.
https://globalcairns.blogspot.com/2021/07/2021-july-newsletter.html

15/04/2021

Another example of nuance, 3min from a Nigerian author and storyteller I admire.

https://www.facebook.com/29092950651/posts/10164154477875652/

31/03/2021

When your church makes a video helping you (two awkward-on-camera-people) explain what you do overseas. Grateful to Mountview Christian Church!

This is "Strategic Partners - Drs. Bryan and Mary Cairns" by Mountview on Vimeo, the home for high quality videos and the people who love them.

31/03/2021

It's been a year since our last newsletter updates. We're pleased to be able to share that we plan to travel soon to Nairobi, Kenya, for 2 years. See the attached newsletter for updates about Lizzie (almost 2yo!), SARS-CoV-19 in Africa, and more.

We are a physician couple seeking to serve Jesus and live out our faith by volunteering globally - currently in Kenya and Cameroon.

08/09/2020

4years later, it goes on...
I don't have words.

Cameroon says the economies of its troubled English-speaking western regions are collapsing as a result of the country’s four-year separatist conflict.  Officials say the ongoing fighting has made tax revenues in the English-speaking Northwest region drop from $800,000 annually to just $1,000 la...

30/06/2020

I wanted to draw your attention to the link for this year's MedRetreat at Alongside, which will take place at the Alongside campus in Richland, MI, from July 19-29, 2020.

Alongside’s MedRetreat is a ten-day program designed specifically for healthcare professionals serving cross-culturally. In addition to daily plenary sessions on critical topics, group debriefing/counseling, and personal counseling sessions, the retreat offers plenty of opportunity to unplug, relax, and enjoy ALONGSIDE’s beautiful campus.

Would you be willing to help "get the word out" to the healthcare professionals serving cross-culturally whom you feel could benefit from attending? This year's program has plenty of room, and they are hoping to impact as many as possible. You can direct interested people to...

https://www.alongsidecares.net/our-programs/medretreat/

31/05/2020

Cross-cultural mental health resource alert!
"My Hero Is You" Kid's Storybook (covid-19 related) available in 86+ languages and audio/video formats: great example of how quickly well-done materials can be produced and translated!

Thanks to the Mental Health and Psychosocial Support in Emergency Settings (MHPSS):

My Hero is You, Storybook for Children on COVID-19 Posted on Tuesday, March 31, 2020 Published Date 31 March 2020 This book was a project developed by the Inter-Agency Standing Committee Reference Group on Mental Health and Psychosocial Support in Emergency Settings (IASC MHPSS RG). The project was....

21/05/2020

Fascinating. I had assumed (wrongly) that African countries don't have enough tests - but they do!
Worth a read if you're curious about how this huge continent is doing!

"The East African countries that are, so far, outperforming the global West benefitted from Ebola preparations..."

From the beginning of the coronavirus pandemic, many countries in Africa pursued public-health measures more aggressively than the U.S. and Europe did.

10/05/2020

Really terrible happenings

Billions of locusts are destroying food supplies in the Horn of Africa during the coronavirus outbreak.