Press
Drs. Milton and Fred Ochieng’ deliver keynote speech at 2012 TN Global Health Forum
Thursday, March 01 2012Click here to read the article.
Lwala Featured at the Clinton Global Initiative 2011 Meeting
Friday, September 30 2011Click here to read the article.
The Vanderbilt Reporter highlights Dr. Milton Ochieng’s participation at Clinton Global Initiative
Thursday, September 22 2011Click here to read the article.
Milton and Fred Ochieng’ featured in Black Enterprise’s “40 Next” Emerging Business Leaders
Tuesday, November 09 2010Click here to read the article.
Vanderbilt Medical Magazine features 3 year update on Lwala
Tuesday, October 19 2010Click here to read the article.
CNN features Sons of Lwala – Fred & Milton Ochieng’
Wednesday, December 09 2009Click below to watch the CNN story on the Ochieng’ brothers:
ABC World News Selects Ochieng’ Brothers as Persons of the Week
Wednesday, December 02 2009For Milton and Fred Ochieng’, brothers from the remote village of Lwala in western Kenya, the shared dream of becoming doctors in America seemed like an impossible feat.
Growing up more than 7,000 miles away in a community with no doctors or health clinics, the brothers saw first-hand how the villagers struggled to receive care.
“You’d either have to get the person in the back of a bicycle or in a wheelbarrow if they’re bleeding and literally push them on the wheelbarrow for 45 minutes or an hour to get to the nearest paved road — then flag down a taxi,” Milton Ochieng’ said. “Sometimes, it would take two hours to get to the hospital.”
Milton Ochieng’s passion for medicine won him a full scholarship to Dartmouth College, but when he couldn’t afford the $900 plane ticket, the community stepped in. The villagers put their faith and savings into one of their own, holding a “harambe,” or fundraiser.
