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Date Posted: January 22, 2018
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MP Shah hospital is offering pediatric open heart surgery this January

Congenital Heart Disease (CHD) remains the world’s most common birth defect, affecting approximately 1 in 100 children. Children with CHD in Africa have a dramatically different prognosis to those living in developed nations, in terms of morbidity and mortality. Hence, this partnership between MEAK/Evelina London Children’s Hospital and MP Shah Hospital has the goal of treating children who cannot afford the surgical repair. In January 2017, the teams performed open-heart surgeries on 15 children.

This year, a similar mission has been organized with the hope of carrying out 20 open-heart surgeries on children with a congenital heart who can otherwise not afford such intervention. The international team is made up of 9 specialist doctors and 7 nurses. Mike and Dee Bellière are the founders and driving force behind the charity, MEAK. The camp is to run from January 25th to February 2nd, 2018, with screening to take place on the 26th and 27th of January at the MP Shah Hospital’s Cardiac Centre. The screening will be for all children with cardiac defects.

In 1994 the Belliere’s took the bold step of establishing a bonafide charity and MEAK was born. The main thrust back then was the collection, transportation, and distribution of medical and educational aid provided, free of charge, by UK donors to needy organizations in Kenya. Today MEAK organizes and funds medical and surgical missions in the fields of pediatric cardiac surgery, dentistry, ophthalmology, and orthopedics. To date MEAK has carried out over 140 missions, performing over 15,500 surgical procedures, but we know there are plenty of people we still need to reach and that the numbers in need are increasing on a daily basis.

MEAK has been performing their heart missions at Kenyatta National Hospital since 2002. 2017 was the first year that the pediatric cardiac surgical mission for repair of congenital heart defects took place at MP Shah Hospital.

Date Posted: January 9, 2018
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6 beauty hacks for your wedding day

By Ilse Frank.

If you are engaged and now you are preparing for your big day, then you should be very careful regarding all the preparations. It is the biggest and most important day of every person’s life. You do everything to make it the best and memorable day of your life. But the most important character at a wedding day is the bride. The makeover and style of the bride must be admirable, to make the day glossy. But instant beauty is very difficult to achieve. You must already take some measure for your beauty before the wedding. Below are six beauty hacks for your wedding day.

  1. Use of face-wash twice a day

Face-wash is material to be used instead of soap for washing your face. Face-wash helps you achieve a spotless skin. It removes all the unessential like pimples from your skin to give you a glowing face. You must use it twice a day for better results.

2. Use tissue for lipstick application

This technique is done to make your lips look more attractive with a lighter color and to make your lipstick last for longer in the same form. Before the use of lipstick, coat it with a tissue paper. Start doing the lip stick upon the tissues in contact with your lips. Complete the lip sticking and you will notice better and longer lasting color .

3.  Contouring

Contouring is an up to date makeup trick for getting younger. Contouring helps us slowly have the structure of our face we want. It edits our previous expression and helps us get a much better one. In this trick you can customize your looks and make them brighter and bolder. Contouring has very few disadvantages as it is skin friendly.

4. Curly lashes

You can curl your lashes with the common hair dryer. Eyelashes are expensive, and sometimes they don’t even suit you. In this method, you can use a hair dryer to warm your eyelashes. After warming them let them cool. They would become in a curl shape, and due to the energy provided, they would last longer. This affect created can make you look younger.

5. Regular usage of less sensitive products

This is very important for you to know. After getting awake, you may use a face wash to wash your face instead of soup. The brand new face washes are skin friendly and very affective. This face wash can help you get oil free and pimple free skin. Face wash even removes black its and dark spots from your face. After use of a face wash at morning, you may apply cream to give you fairness throughout the day. At night you may use a night cream as it can work all night to give you the necessary fairness.

6. Blush on

You can use a blush on to make your cheeks much shinier and bright. A blush on does not take much time to get applied. But it can make you look very attractive.

Tip:

Choose the wedding invitation templates and venue wisely because these are the two things that can make a huge difference. Here are few of the best wedding templates by temploola.

Author Bio:

Ilse Frank is the mother of two little boys and is an amazing wedding planner. She is obsessed with wedding traditions and all the customs. She regularly posts at https://www.temploola.com/.

Date Posted: January 5, 2018
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Role of play at the workplace

I once shared a template of a study timetable on social media. One of my colleagues noticed that it had all things covered; you know… study time, homework, and eating time, snack time even sleep time. My colleague asked where play time was. I jokingly answered that we were smart kids who had no time for play, something which sparked a long conversation about the importance of play to not only kids but also adults.

If you have been following us online, you would know that we are a relatively playful organization so to speak. We take the saying that all work and no play, makes Jack a dull boy quite literally in every sense. Thanks to our operations department, we have team activities weaved in our work calendar all the time. You must have seen the team building activities, the thank Ops it’s Friday and the recent one being the five day long team retreat at the Kenyan Coast.

During these activities, team members are just as serious at playing as they usually are at hitting their KPIs. (Keeping over 2 Million learners happy requires that team members work hard to achieve a coherent goal. In other words, systems thinking, this is a whole topic for a future post.)

Importance of play

Studies have proven that play creates a conducive environment for creativity. This is why companies like LEGO® SERIOUS PLAY® have developed innovative process designed to enhance innovation and business performance. Any form of play in the workplace, be it board games, simple ice-breakers, role plays and many more, are a way to encourage creativity.

 

We cannot highlight creativity and leave out problem solving skills. Any form of play improves the players’ problem solving skills. These are soft skills that people can only learn while working as a group. I believe this is why we always have an ice-breaker at the start of every meeting. They make people to think on their toes about what a specific scenario in the shortest time possible.

Most forms of play encourage teamwork and leadership. When you give a junior team member a leading role in a playing team, it encourages them to take initiative even in their daily work. It is a way of breaking barriers caused by the ranks that exist in an organization.

Ever seen how kids are free with their imagination during play? This is why it is important for us to stop and play from time to time so as to allow ourselves to explore our creative reserves. Everyone no matter their role is a creative being. Play also stretches your brain and enhances your IQ.

In conclusion, whether it is that workout, meditation, learning a new skill, or playing a new musical instrument; it is important to know that it is not a waste of time. Play comes in different forms, all geared toward developing a wholesome individual and a more productive team.

Date Posted: January 5, 2018
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Finding an eye cream that fits your needs

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This time of year, more and more women (and men) are looking for skin care products that will help them look and feel their best. One of the best ways to do this is with eye cream, an often-overlooked beauty essential. Eye cream is great for rejuvenating your eyes at such a busy time of the year, and it’s a good idea to get started before you notice signs of aging! There are some important things to consider when looking for a good eye cream, according to Reviews.com:

What’s the goal?

The effectiveness of an eye cream depends on what you want it to do and how it’s used for that purpose, so determine your beauty goal first.

For wrinkles, look for an eye cream that includes retinoids, hyaluronic acid, or peptides. Retinoids are derivatives of vitamin A that help skin slough off old cells, encouraging the production of new collagen. Hyaluronic acid helps bring moisture into cells to keep them hydrated, and peptides make skin think that it needs to create collagen to replace old and broken cells.

For dark circles and puffiness, you’ll want to opt for cream that includes caffeine to shrink down blood vessels. Great formulas will also include antioxidants to prevent the breakdown of collagen and elastin in the future, and sunscreen to protect and brighten your skin. Experts also say that green tea, vitamin K, chamomile, copper, licorice, and aloe vera are good bets for puffiness, too.

Ingredients that make your skin happy

Always check the label of all of your beauty products for skin irritants. The skin around the eyes is particularly sensitive and can easily get puffy and red with the wrong kinds of products. Avoid ingredients like fragrances, parabens, and mineral oils, which are very common in our beauty favorites. Natural oils like avocado or coconut oil are a lot easier on skin, especially those of us who are especially sensitive.

Finding what’s right for your skin is the ultimate goal, so choose what feels right. These tips can help steer you in the right direction! To take a look at the full article and see which creams worked the best, you can check it out here.

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Date Posted: January 5, 2018
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5 Tips for Eyeliner Tight-Lining for Beginners

Eyes are the catchiest feature of your face. Therefore, while going for a make-up look, eye make-up is most integral part of it. If you are a beginner or going for a natural or no makeup look, eyeliner tight lining is a better option than putting a prominent cat-eye liner. It makes your eye line prominent, make lashes look longer and makes you look more awake. Eye-liner tight ling is a technique in which you tight line your upper water line to make your eyes line prominent by making lashes look thicker and longer. Yet achieving a perfect liner look is quite impossible for beginners. Therefore, following are few techniques that can help you to decide what color to put, where to put and how to put to flaunt with your natural eye makeup look.

Type of Eyeliner You Must Choose:

First of all you should know that there are 3 basic types of eyeliners (Pencil, gel and liquid). Gel liners are thick in consistency typically comes in a pot with a brush. On the other hand, liquid eyeliners are most advanced category of eyeliners. They help you to achieve perfect eye look if you master the skills.  However, playing with a gel liner and liquid eyeliners is not that easy if you are a beginner. Therefore, pencil eyeliner is the best option for you.

 

  1. Readying Your Eyeliner for Application:

Pencil eyeliner is the easiest way to achieve perfect everyday look. Choose waterproof eyeliner for tight lining in order to avoid replication on lower waterline. One of the common mistakes people make is not sharpening their liners before every application. Tight lining means applying liner to join your waterline with your lash line which requires precision which dull and round off points cannot provide. In addition to this sharpening your equipment helps you to remove bacteria that are collected on your makeup implements.

  1. Choose The Right-Color:

Different color liners are used to create different effects. Selecting right shade is again fuzz. While black looks perfectly fine for bold and striking look. However, Brown and grey are best training colors as they are more forgiving if you make a blunder. Warm browns, bronze and cooper family shades are perfect for Blue gazes. Try nudes for brighter and wide opened eyes.

  1. Get Set Go:

Take your eyeliner, sit and plat your hand on a flat surface that will provide your hand support to stand in place to avoid shakiness. Now put your palm on your cheeks for further support and start tight lining your eyes. Now tilt your face a little backward and use end of a dry makeup brush to press your lashes upward and to get the view of your upper waterline. Now start lining your waterline from outer corner to inner corner. Repeat the step 2-3 depending on how deep you want color to be. After finishing fill in the space between lashes by gently making dots between them. Now curl your lashes and you are ready to go.

4. Use Cotton Swab To Fix The Mistake:

Even makeup pro’s mess-up with eyeliners. Don’t worry, you can fix your mistake by dipping a cotton swab in makeup remover and use it carefully to remove mistakes. On other way to correct the mistake is to dab cotton swab in a concealer and apply it on the required area to fix the smudges on eyelids.

Author Bio:

Chelsea is a makeup lover who is best at reviewing the latest makeup available online. She covers everything from eye makeup, primers, and foundation to tips and tutorials on how to use many different beauty products. She regularly blogs at MakeupbyChelsea.com

 

 

Date Posted: January 1, 2018
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2017 goals in review: Start afraid, but always start.

 

Happy 2018 folks. I have learnt major lessons in the past year. One of them is avoiding much talk of goals. When you talk about something a lot, rather than writing it down and laying a plan, you jinx yourself. Nah! Truth is, you get comfortable by the affirmations you get and forget to put in the real work.

Last year I had goals that I saw materialize. Top of the list was building my parents a rural home. It might not be the best of homes, but at least we have somewhere to call home. It also has running water. My 2017 new year post on Facebook, is evidence that you just have to step out in faith.

The one resolution that still captures my imagination is personal fitness. My right hand kept on wasting because I rarely use it. Surprisingly, I have gotten so used to it that I don’t see it as a big deal. Someone pointed out that I was getting worse by not attending physio therapy sessions. You see, physio is a long term process that I have been on and off several times. I went back for sessions due to the push from a caring friend. People need friends like these who will not just praise you but spur you to personal improvement. (Though sometimes I didn’t like you much). Thank you friend, you know yourself.

My first ever swimming lesson was in class six, and I did not like the lesson. We would be forced to jump into the pool without any training, swallow as much water as possible, and learn how to swim on your own. So traumatic. So much for public schools that had swimming pools. Ours was among the first ones in Eastlands, Nairobi.

Fast forward in 2010, when I went for my baptism at Nyayo Stadium, a group of paraplegic swimmers offered to train me for free. They wanted me to join the Kenyan paraplegic swimming team.  Then I was busy with classes in uni. Again, Nah! If you really want something, you will make tome for it. (Just that way, a chance at greatness passed me by).

I finally had to pay for swimming lessons in 2017 and finished  the lessons. I can now say that I know how to swim. Of surprise is that since I started swimming, my weight has been increasing. I was stuck at 55 Kg and below no matter what I ate. Is that a good thing? It’s a good thing because I started developing muscles.

Swimming lessons

How can I forget my maiden trip to the Coast. We had a staff retreat which was memorable thanks to my swimming skills. Thanks coach Peter, for being patient with me. I couldn’t have done it alone.

I also read more books and had lots of coffee dates by myself. I needed those to recharge. (Introverts will understand this better).

In conclusion, every castle started with a dream. Believe in those dreams enough to chase them. Always have a notebook to jot down your wildest dreams, no matter how stupid they seem. You never know when you will get the chance to implement it. Have a happy writing year.

Habakkuk 2:2 “Record the vision And inscribe it on tablets, That the one who reads it may run”.