The Rhein - Valley Hospital in Nakuru-Kasambara opened in 2004 and is directed by Ruth Schäfer of Switzerland. The hospital relies solely on donations for buying food and medicine for the poor and suffering locals. Moreover, all funds are used directly for patient care. Every year thousands of people visit the hospital for medical help and nowadays also for food and shelter. Blog Editor: Kedar Misani.

You can send your donations to the Alpha Rheintal Bank, CH - 9442 Berneck, Switzerland; Clearing 6920, BIC RBABCH22926;
IBAN: CH75 06920016 1856 71206, Verein Rhein-Valley Hospital, CH - 9450 Altstätten, Switzerland.


Thursday, March 13, 2008

Austrian Food Container arrived in Nakuru

sh. This morning we had to get up early to greet the two representatives of the Austrian "Schilling für Schilling" organization at the Airstrip in Nakuru. They sponsored a food container that arrived today at the hospital. Oliver, Michaela and the Manager of the African Safari Club hotel in Mombasa came for the arrival but could only stay for two hours, before they had to continue their journey.

Today we gave out food for 3500 refugees at the Rhein-Valley Hospital and there was a vaccination day for the mothers. We also had an important visit: Mr. Meina (left in above picture together with Stephan Holderegger in the middle) from the UN World Food Program was here and appreciated our work. He plans to hold a press conference tomorrow where he will inform about our activities at the hospital. While here he also called up the secretary of the Swiss Ambassador in Nairobi and told him about our constructive work for the poor. Mr. Meina said that he hasn't seen so much inspiring activities for a long time and that he tries to get foods from his organization.

We just heard that the National Swiss TV SF DRS1 with Gaby Schädler from the "Rundschau" program will visit us from March 21-27 to produce a film in Nakuru together with Swiss dulcimer player Nicolas Senn.

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