Explain how the ochieng brothers their hometown of lwala, kenya. why was this project so important to them, and how did they overcome the challenges they encountered? support your response with information from the lesson. this the passage lwala, kenya. when milton ochieng was matriculated to dartmouth college in the united states, residents of the tiny village of lwala, kenya, where milton grew up, sold their chickens and cattle to raise money for the plane ticket. milton felt a profound responsibility to reciprocate. eight years later, ochieng, now a vanderbilt university medical school graduate, has returned to lwala and is indeed giving back. he and his brother fred—who followed in milton's footsteps and also attended dartmouth and vanderbilt—have established lwala's first healthcare clinic. before their clinic opened, health care was inaccessible to lwala's 1,500 residents. as a result, the ochieng brothers lost their mother in 2004 to a preventable, treatable disease. one year later, the ochieng brothers lost their father to the same disease. before his death, the elder ochieng had dreamed that no more people would die of diseases due to a lack of health care facilities, and he impressed upon his sons the need for health care in closer proximity to the community. this, he said, could be achieved by establishing a clinic in lwala. the two brothers never forgot their father's dream during the time they were attending medical school in the united states. chiefly to fundraising efforts on fred's part, it took the ochieng brothers about two years—while attending school full time—to raise the $150,000 they needed to return to lwala and bring their father's dream to fruition. blood: water mission, a nonprofit organization working to abate the effects of the hiv and aids pandemic in africa, also contributed $45,000 to the brothers' effort. in 2007, the brothers were finally able to open the clinic, and in the first year, they served 20,000 patients at a cost of about $100,000—just a fraction of what the same services would have cost in the united states. "it's important for people to get a sense of how far the u. s. dollar can go [in kenya]," said milton, noting that one woman had emergency surgery at a cost of only $250. a similar procedure could run more than $10,000 in the united states. despite the disparity in costs, the clinic struggles to raise enough money to cover its daily operating expenses. still, optimistic staffers hope to eventually expand the clinic by adding an hiv/aids wing and by constructing a maternity ward. currently, babies are delivered in the clinic's kitchen, a situation that milton describes as "not ideal." for now, the clinic scrapes by on assistance from various sources, such as a united states-based nonprofit organization called the lwala community alliance. the clinic also receives aid from former television reporter barry simmons. simmons had interviewed the ochieng brothers and subsequently quit his job in order to devote all of his energy to creating a documentary about the brothers. it depicts the protagonists' struggles and indomitable determination to build the clinic, all while attending school full-time and coping with their parents' deaths. the film, called sons of lwala, has thus far raised $230,000. "it was always the plan to give them a platform to raise money and spread their story," simmons said. despite a lack of running water and an inconsistent supply of electricity, the volume of patients continues to grow at the clinic, which serves roughly 4,000 residents from lwala and the surrounding area. the clinic turns no one away and treats about 85 percent of its patients for free. milton ochieng seems with the clinic's progress to this point. "there's such a sense of love, and people feeling they've gained so much from the health center," he said. "it makes you realize how great it is to be a doctor, how great it is to be serving humanity."