Healthcare has been one of the primary concerns of New Ways since its foundation. The first project we funded was a medical centre at the Habari Njema centre in Nairobi providing basic healthcare for the children of a one of Nairobi's largest shanty towns. In most of the areas in which New Ways works healthcare provision is very limited. In northern Kenya, especially amongst the nomadic people, access to western medicine is almost non-existent, and people mostly rely on traditional methods of healing. The MCSPA has been one of the regions major healthcare providers for two decades with doctors, nurses and mobile clinics that provide basic healthcare to a population of around 40,000 spread over 12,000 square kilometres. In 2001, New Ways provided funding for a new mobile health clinic. This runs six primary health care dispensaries and 27 outreach clinics to semi-nomadic settlements and also visits the 11 nutritional nursery schools based around Nariokotome.