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.


Wednesday, April 16, 2008

Humanitarian organisations inspired by us

This is one of our patients: a 85 year old woman who suddenly had several health problems. Only last week she still was carrying 20 liter water containers from our hospital to her home. She was happy to be outside the building for a short time and was assisted by our doctor and one of our nurses.

Today started sunny and already at 8:30 am we had a first meeting at the office of the UN World Food Program, where we got the latest informations. The major humanitarian organisations had a meeting and discussed the situation at the Rhein-Valley Hospital in Nakuru, based on extensive informations from Mr. Meina Muhia and Mr. Harald Nordby. Both recently could witness themselves how active Mama Matata and our crew is.

Cooking for our crew

Arriving at the hospital we called the President of the Rhein-Valley association to ask him for permission to give a little salary to 22 refugees who currently help us with our works at the camp site and to keep the order. The roof for the central fire place of the camp could also be finished today and we were looking for some amount of gravel for this site. So we drove to Naivasha, where we had a meeting with Mr. Lutzky, project manager of the H. Young & Co. and he kindly agreed to sponsor a truck load of gravel including the transport costs. Many thanks to him for his generous help!

On the way back to Nakuru we had a heavy thunderstorm and flooding. Many cars were blocked by the water masses.

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