About Tenwek

My trip to Tenwek will begin on June 1^st.  I will arrive in Nairobi, Kenya about 24 hours after I leave the airport in Detroit, MI.  Once in Nairobi, I will have another 4 hour car ride to my final destination at Tenwek Hospital in Bomet, Kenya.  Tenwek is located about 150 miles from Nairobi in the Bomet County of Kenya’s Rift Valley Province.  The hospital is located about 100 miles south of the equator.  Tenwek is administered as a subsidiary of the African Gospel Church in cooperation with World Gospel Mission.  The hospital was founded in 1937 and has now grown to a 300-bed referral and teaching center, making it one of the largest Protestant mission hospitals in Africa.  It provides primary health care to 600,000 people within about a 20 mile radius.  The climate is very temperate due to the 6800-ft. elevation.  In the month of June, while I am there, it is normally dry and cool in the evenings.  Temperatures this time of year range from 51 – 70 degrees.  I will be arriving near the end of their rainy season.