Swiss Red Cross promises 50 Tents

rs. Today 2800 people came to get their food portions at our Rhein-Valley Hospital in Nakuru. Especially the women were fighting to be first in line. I had to calm them down several times, explaining that there is enough for everybody. It is only now that I realize how much help I had in the last 10 days when Stephan and Hennie helped me with my work. I also have good news from the Red Cross in Switzerland: Mr. Thomas Kumpera promised to give us 50 tents by the end of the week. We urgently need them for our refugees.

Stephan and Dutch friend visit the Hospital

sh. Stephan Hoderegger, the founder of the Rhein-Valley Hospital and his Dutch friend Hennie arrived in Kenya yesterday. Only 10 people left the plane in Nairobi. At the airport as well as on our route to Nakuru, not many people were on the streets. The population still lives in fear and from 7 pm to 7 in the morning there is a curfew. Stephan and Hennie visited the poor today and realised how severe the situation is. The world only saw the brutal pictures of the fights but does not see the calamity behind the scenes. So many people - women, children and men - are on the run. Die big organisations are completely overstrained. Ruth Schäfer of the Rhein-Valley Hospital gave food to 3000 people in one day alone and took 100 childern in her shelter. She also plays with the children, teaches them in mathematics and still tries to remain happy! The pictures were all taken today.

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