A Legacy of Healing, Service, and Compassion

Her legacy

Yei Kaalu Memorial Hospital was named in honor of and inspired by my grandmother, Yei Kaalu, a God-fearing woman, a midwife, a healer, and a woman devoted to serving her community.

Some of my most meaningful memories are of watching my grandmother care for others. When someone in the community had a fever or became ill, she would go into the bush, gather herbs, and use the knowledge she had acquired over a lifetime to help care for them. As a midwife, she helped women through pregnancy and childbirth and was there for families during some of the most important and vulnerable moments of their lives.

Her service was not about recognition or reward. Helping others was simply part of who she was.

My grandmother also believed deeply in education. She encouraged me to study, to work hard, and eventually to travel abroad to further my education. But her message did not end with leaving home. She encouraged me to return and use what I had learned to help our community.

That message remained with me throughout my life and my career as a nurse.

Together, my grandmother and my father instilled values in me that I continue to carry today: give to others, treat people with kindness, work hard, and never forget where you came from.

Yei Kaalu Memorial Hospital represents the continuation of those values.

Today, where my grandmother once used the resources available to her to care for a sick neighbor or help a mother safely bring a child into the world, we are working to create a hospital where future generations can receive compassionate, modern healthcare close to home.

The hospital is more than a building bearing my grandmother's name. It is the continuation of her life's work.

Every mother who receives maternity care, every patient who is treated when ill, every child whose health is protected, and every family that finds care within these walls will help carry her legacy forward.

"My grandmother taught me that healing begins with service."

My grandmother taught me that healing begins with service.

Yei Kaalu Memorial Hospital is my opportunity to bring that lesson home.

Her legacy of faith, healing, kindness, hard work, and service to others will forever remain a constant in my life—and it is the foundation upon which Yei Kaalu Memorial Hospital stands.