Dear sponsors, friends and supporters,
As usual, the Easter holidays are approaching fast. We can hardly believe that after ice and snow and then a few warm days, we have snowflakes and freezing temperatures again.
On Friday (February 16, 2018) we received news from Kenya of a building on the clinic property being on fire. It is used as a storage (for medical supplies, equipment) but also the water supply (well, water pump etc.) is also located there.
My name is Mwanasha. I am in Germany since 05 April 2017 and worked for 1 year as au-pair in a Family by the name Schaller. The Family was friendly to me, that means i had a lot of fun and i got to learn and experience many new things from them.
Already the whole day was the anticipation felt. The banda was decorated and treats prepared. Also, the Christmas songs and Christmas poems that the children should recite were rehearsed.
As every year, the children spent the days between Christmas and New Year on the beach. The older boys were even allowed to spend the night there and also the New Year's Eve was celebrated in the banda at the beach.
Since the Nice View Clinic was so far just registered as Medical Centre, the registration had to be adapted. In principle no inpatient treatments were allowed, but we had on an interim basis a special permit.
From 04 to 08 September was Adidas, supported by MTG (Move the Goal), again with a team in Kwale and Nice View was invited to the various workshops and activities.
In July, 11 babies were born in the Nice View Medical Centre. Thus, we already have an impressive number of 23 newborns in our Nice View clinic. All mothers and infants returned home safe and sound.
In August, one of our Nice View children had a surgical removal of a lump that was suspected cancerous. The surgery was successful and luckily the doctors found that the tumour turned out to be benign.
On July 16th 2017, the Nice View Medical Centre once again organised a medical camp. This time it took place in the Jomo Kenyatta Primary School, a state elementary school.
Due to the tropical climate, our team in Kenya has actually a lot of renovation work and the school toilets had to be replaced urgently because of the intensive use.