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.


Monday, June 9, 2008

Food distribution for Kasambara refugees

Picture in large size on the Kenya Photos Blog

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We are splitting up the different groups of refugees for the food distribution; today we invited 250 living in private homes in Kasambara. They also told us that they do not want to go back. The repatriation of the population is a mere dream of the Government. The reality is different. They people even prefer to sell their property at home and buy a little hut here. Many also don't think that the next elections will bring any change. Since the 1990s people were displaced after elections. - Late afternoon our crew member Fundi got bad news: one of his relatives died and he asked for permission to see her a last time tomorrow. The details of the funeral are not yet fixed. Usually in Kenya the dead are brought to their birth place, which also cost some money and many do not have enough, so the dead people sometimes stay in the mortuary for more than a month.

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