Fireside Chat
2:15 PM • Stell Hall
Interviewer
Andrew Schuman D’10
Founding Editor-In-Chief, Dartmouth Apologia
Guest
Fred Ochieng’, MD D’05
Co-founder, Lwala Community Alliance
Fred Ochieng’ came to Dartmouth from Lwala, Kenya and graduated in 2005. With his brother Milton (D’04), he founded the Lwala Community Alliance and Lwala Clinic. Fred received his M.D. from Vanderbilt University School of Medicine in May, 2010, and is currently a first-year resident at Vanderbilt in Internal Medicine and Pediatrics.
Fred and Milton were sent to America to become doctors. Families from their rural village sold their livestock to buy the brothers plane tickets, and charged them to remember where they came from. As undergraduates at Dartmouth, the brothers lost both parents to AIDS, and then made it their mission to finish the village healthcare clinic their father had dreamed of. Unable to raise enough money on their own, the brothers were joined by Dartmouth students, faculty, and community members to launch a nationwide fundraising drive. From this came the Lwala Community Alliance, an organization that continues to support the Lwala Clinic and other development initiatives in rural Kenya. Fred and Milton's inspiring story is chronicled in the award-winning documentary "Sons of Lwala," and the brothers have been featured in several national news outlets. In his 2009 inaugural address, Dartmouth President Jim Yong Kim said the Lwala Clinic “administers not just medical care, but hope itself.”
In this session, Fred will talk about the Clinic’s remarkable success and recent expansion, and share the story of his personal journey. He will speak in particular about how his faith has informed his experiences with the Lwala Clinic, and how his beliefs have guided and sustained him through the hardships he has faced.
