One of the components of Hope Medical is a palliative care team. Most of the work is done by social workers, some nursing and some doctors. Many participants are prior patients of Hope Medical Clinic, but some are through connections in the community. The government hospital just opened a cancer/palliative care unit. While Kennis, a social workers, was visiting one of our patients in the hospital, she met the boy below in the black baseball cap. He has a spinal tumor. He was all alone at the time, and she started talking with him. She found out that his birthday was coming , he was going to turn 19. His mother works nights and his father works days. So he does not get a chance to see them much. Kennis decided to throw him a birthday party. I was honored to be able to come along. She brought cake, and cookies. One of the residents, Eddie, came and played guitar and some of the people in Kennis's church came to help celebrate. A few of the nurses from the Hospital joined and even one of the doctors. You could tell that he really appreciated it. Please pray for him, because he was told that the radiation and chemo treatments were not controlling the cancer, and surgery will be needed. I am not sure of his faith, pray for that as well.

The one in the black baseball cap is the birthday boy, the one next to him is his roommate in the hospital, he has cancer too.
Kennis is the one with short hair on the right in the back. The other girls in the picture are his sister and her friends.

This is a picture of the church members, Eddie who played guitar for us, and Kennis, who organized the party.