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 8, 2008

Vaccination day for 380 babies

sh. Today was vaccination day. 380 mothers came with their children and many of them had to wait for a long time in burning heat. We started at 9 am and finished at 3 pm. Then we had to handle the cooking facilities within our refugee camp. As it is too dangerous for each individual to make a fire we organized a central fire place, controlled by our Securitas personnel. Later we also met Mr. Meina Muhia, responsable for the UN World Food Program. We exchanged our views and experiences in regard to the refugees. He then sent two of his employees to help us arrange things. Besides these good news also bad news from Nairobi. President Kibaki and Mr. Odinga couldn't agree how to arrange the parliament. As Kenyan TV broadcasted today, there are again riots in Kisumu and Kinera between the police, the military and demonstrators. Houses and tires have been burnt. The TV commentators also showed concern about the serious situation.

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