i head back to taveta with a renewed energy.ll patients and families the support they deserve and decide to confront our member of county assembly. the governor promises his support. and i speak to as many officials as i can, hoping to drum up support for a specialist center. thank you so much, mama. woman: you're welcome. lea: bye. woman: bye. lea: finally, after years of advocating a special clinic for sickle cell patients in taveta is unveiled. (cheering). (speaking in native language). all the battles, all the obstacles, finally, we are here. (cheering). having a sickle cell clinic in taita taveta is no easy feat and having all of you come together for the entire country is not a force to joke with. (applause). yeah. having passed through this struggle with us now feel us. these people here show me that we are not alone. i am not alone. we are not walking alone. we are creating this path however long it will take. however, hard the struggle, the lives lost, maybe some of us will not be here to see the future, but we must wal

. ♪ for my training, i'm going back to my hometown, taveta. where i think i can make the biggest difference for thousands of people living with the disease. ♪ in taveta, almost a quarter of the population have the sickle cell gene, but those living with the disease receive very little support. (speaking in native language). i join a local group as they prepare to march on a nearby hospital and demand better services for sickle cell patients. we go to the local hospital to protest. lea: albert is the leader of this group. like so many other parents of children with sickle cell, he has suffered from the stigma and poverty that surrounds the disease. but he is determined to find a solution. ♪ (singing in native language) ♪ ♪ (singing in native language) ♪ albert was one of the first people i met, and he was one of the few who really spoke to me. like the passion, like this was one of the parents that i saw who did not feel the shame or the stigma of sickle cell. ♪ (singing in native language) ♪ lea: i know how destructive the myths surrounding si