Walking through this path can drain you both emotionally and financially. Jackie knows this too well having to wear the hat of a caregiver and that of a patient. She traveled to India with a critically ill newborn to seek heart surgery since the service was not available in Kenya.

She believes in advocacy and research in the modern medical world that will see fetal echo cardiography done during antenatal clinics in kenya. This will help parents plan for the life saving surgery even before the baby is born.