During a visit to Kenya, Vittorino and Wanda accompanied a doctor and a nurse in their medical examination rounds. They went along unpaved roads surrounded by thick woods and they eventually arrived in a clearing encircled by huts, where a group of mothers carrying their babies were eagerly waiting for them. They wore festive multicolor clothes and smiling faces. In their hands they held a plastic bag they kept thoroughly : it contained the list of vaccines, the diagnoses, and the treatments provided to the child.

One at a time, they approached the minibus, where the doctor examines the child, controls his state of health, and gives them the necessary vaccines, surrounded by a soft smiling chit-chatting. Once the examinations are finished in this village, the minibus goes to the following village, and it is in this way that all children are periodically examined, treated, and vaccinated.

Only in this way are the mothers able to control their children’s state of health, since they could never reach a hospital.

After living this experience, we decided in 2004 to finance a request coming from Congo for the purchase of a Medical Mission minibus equiped for nursing, to give doctors the chance of reaching, on scheduled dates, the villages situated hundreds of kilometers away from any hospital.