On the day before Child Health week, at the National Ministry of Public Health and Sanitation, we trained 17 officers on how to conduct their surveys using Nokia 6300 mobile phone.   We asked the staff to work in pairs and taught them how to download surveys from the online Episurveyor server, fill out surveys, and send the surveys back to the episurveyor.org website.   A couple hours later, they were ready to start their actual interviews!  The next day, the health ministry officers were off to conduct their interviews. They divided into 8 teams to interview all districts in Kenya. I tagged along with two public health officers who were responsible for interviewing health clinics in the Eastern district of Nairobi.  Here they are, interviewing two mothers who have just completed their Malezi Bora activities at a clinic. 

Our dev team has been stationed at the Nairobi office, ready to take on any technical support calls, which hasn't occurred yet.   Now halfway through the study, the real-time online data shows that the public health officers have collected data from exit interviews from over 45 different health facilities! 

We are excited and full of anticipation as we watch and support the work during the final stretch of this critical week here in Kenya.