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.


Friday, December 5, 2008

Drinking water most needed


rs. If you drive around Nakuru, busy traffic marks the image of the region and you can feel Christmas time approaching. If you are on the road you better keep all valuable things at home, otherways you risk them to be stolen. The temperature is still very high, we measured 35 °C today. It's not only the heat that bothers the people but also the dry warm wind. So our water station is used very frequently especially by the children because they have now holidays. I always tell our guards to ask the children only to use clean vessels, but what can you do. Also their outfit is dirtier than dirty. Even at night many Kenyans do not change clothes, so it is also not easy to convince them to change into proper clothes when they are in our hospital.

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