Tonight Stephan comes back to Nakuru

rs. Today it's again busy in the hospital. Aska recovered a bit from her injury but her face is still swollen. I could stay in the hospital only for a short time because a lot of office work is waited for me at home. There was again a power brake down and only thanks to my generator I could write today's report. Kamau who wanted to repair the broken water tube, couldn't come but sent someone else: his fried Paul who did the reparation in a twinkling of an eye. Then I had to prepare to drive to Nairobi because tonight my partner and co-founder of the hospital Stephan Holderegger cames again from Switzerland to assist us here - what we badly need!

Today's picture shows a young women of our neighborhood
carrying dried grass for her animals (Photo: Ruth Schäfer)

Power interruption and heavy rain

rs. This Sunday morning I got a call from John, that the power supply was interrupted in the hospital. I found out that it has been announced in the paper but who reads the paper every day... I then called Aska who was attacked yesterday. She doesn't feel well and still has a lot of pain and she barely can see with the swollen eye. She asked to stay home for another two days. Sure, no problem. Today I also made my control visit to the hospital. I visited a pregnant woman and saw a young girl, that have been beaten up by her mother and luckily the eye had not been damaged. When I returned home, I had to prepare everything for tomorrow, we will have our food distribution day. In the meantime we had heavy thunderstorms, temperatures are now around 19°C.

Husband visits his wife in the Rhein-Valley Hospital this morning

Sad stories remain in the focus

This morning Fundi, our Hospital manager packed his furniture to be moved to a small village at the border of Uganda, were he spent his youth. He and his family ran for their life when the turbulences started in Nakuru. I spontaneously gave them shelter. After a while his wife and children returned back to their parent's home. They belong to the Kalenjin tribe. As the wife couldn't take all the belongings with her, her husband is now bringing the rest. It is an 8 hour journey. Hope all goes well and he will be back soon; we need his help.

After returning home the phone rang and it was John, our clinic doctor. With agitation he reported that our youngest nurse Aska had been attacked yesterday evening and had to be delivered to the town hospital where they treated her for 6 hours, before she could go home. They also stole her salary that she picked up from the bank. She saved money for three months to help her mother whose house had been burnt. And she wanted to build a little hut around the hospital to be together with her animals. For the time being she had to take shelter in the police station. It is disheartening to hear all these stories. It seems that sometimes human beings are more cruel than animals. - Mama Matata

The rainy season started also in Nakuru ...