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.


Tuesday, April 29, 2008

Shopping in Nakuru - Internet interrupted

rs. According to official informations, the Kenyan internet is currently out of function due to technical problems. We hope to have it back soon. In the meantime I am sending this text by other means to keep our daily posts alive.

This morning I went to Nakuru for shopping, together with our secretary Nijaga. As most of the IDP's have no washing bowls, nor dishes or pans, we decided to buy bigger and smaller pans for cooking. We also bought hand lanterns that work with paraffin, because we often envision power brakes during the night. Alltogether we spent nearly five hours in a shopping center and even after we payed our bill the owner wanted to check everything over and over until my patience became thin like a thread! When we finally wanted to load my "Liseli" (that's the name of my Landrover), we realized that it is too small so we had to hire a little 3-wheel taxi and due to the usual evening shower we had to bring everything into my home. Tomorrow we will bring the things to the hospital and will distribute them to the people.


1 comment:

Anonymous said...

Thanks for what you are doing in GilGil. Did you do your shopping at Gilani's supermarket? The last time I was there it took me one hour to go through checkout. I have not been back since.