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, June 24, 2008

People should communicate more

rs. This is the child that was born during the night. We published a picture of the mother waiting in the garden in yesterday's post. It's so fascinating to see how quickly the Kenyan mothers recover from a birth. Normally a mother stays in the hospital for a couple of days or even a week!

This morning Nyaga came to me and said that he got a call from a man who reported that his wife and the three children came to our camp and he wanted to get them out again. At 1 pm he came and we had a long and difficult discussion. First I spoke with him alone and then we invited his wife. After 4 hours we made some progress and we agreed to meet again in a couple of days. The big problem here in Kenya is the lack of communication. They didn't learn to make decisions on their own.

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