The Kimanjo Clinic is a government dispensary. It employs a senior nurse/clinical officer Stephen Njoroge, and more recently a second nurse. Stephen is a highly experienced and motivated practitioner. The clinic is equipped with basic facilities and is normally well-supplied with high quality drugs.
Achievements
Thanks to a generous gift from the Hestia Foundation and the Ruth Lilly Philanthropic Foundation we have been able to set up the Nabakisho Healthcare Programme which employs a community nurse, Rosemary Gichohi, and has trained and equipped, and gives small stipends to 27 Community Health Workers (CHWs). The Programme also provides a motorbike and a mobile clinic 4x4 vehicle. Advanced training in HIV/AIDs is being provided courtesy of the world-renowned AMPATH programme, and we have just started supplementary feeding for patients on ARVs.
Guests at The Sanctuary at Ol Lentille, or Regenesis, have donated a great variety of medical equipment, a computer with mobile broadband access and a printer. Equally, professionals with medical and allied skills have contributed their knowhow.
What Can I Contribute?
The sustainability of these vital programmes and projects currently depends on the extraordinary generosity of a few people. We must broaden the base of support. YOUR help is needed. We have realistic ambitions for the clinic to become an official Sub-district Hospital.
Normally, we like donors to give their money to a specific project or programme that is close to their hearts and areas of interest. For healthcare we prefer you to make undesignated healthcare gifts - there is just so much to be done locally, but sporadically international aid organisation funding becomes available, and so we need to maintain flexibility in application of funds.