Dispensary with Polish Soul

    17 years ago Sister Ewe Kubaczyk went to Kenya to establish there a muster of Missionary Sisters of the Holy Family, and to give people medical aid. Ewe started to work and live in a small village Rironi, located 30 km our of Kenyan capitol: Nairobi. There she found a place to build simple dispensary, which can offer the first aid, malaria, typhoid tests, simple blood examinations.

   Simba Friends Foundation team has visited the place in October this year. The building is well kept, clean and ordered even if there is no doctor, paramedic or even a watchman. All works are done juts by three energetic nuns: Ewa, Beatrice and Clare. These ladies help patients with malaria, HIV, diabetes, polio, and all other diseases which can be cure at place. Unfortunately, the clinic lacks even basic equipment, like needles, compresses, bandages.  In October we could see a smile on nun's faces, bacause some great gifts were brought from Poland. Medical personal from Jan Poul II Hospital in Włoszczowa bought for Ewe packages of laboratory equipment as well as a professional glucose measurer. Sister Ewe often says that she has some special friends in Poland, whom she has never seen, and who does not know her personally. "This people, who have only heard of me are sending us money, accessories, and a good pray. I have a great gratitute towards them all, because it gives me much more than just technical assistance. Such help supports my faith in people and consoes me when I miss Poland". We are happy to annouce that a new box of medical gifts from hospital in Włoszczowa will reach Rironi on Christmas!

  Who are patients of the St Andrew Dispensary? Those are rather poor villagers from Rironi, they cannot afford visit in the privet clinic or pay a trip to the public hospital in Nairobi. To make malaria teat one pays in the hospital at least 150Kes, where there at Ewe's clinic one pays only 30 Kes, and in special cases can "loan" the antibiotics.  Quite a good number of Ewe's patients are young woman, pregnant ladies with HIV, or lonely mothers. Many young girls live a sad live there, due to poverty they end up on the streets of Nairobi, when getting pregnant they risk abortion or family abundance. Young girls, who decide to keep their pregnancy, must risk difficult delivery and hard baby keeping times.

 Knowing needs of her patients Ewa became to have two major dreams: the first is to be able to make good hematology analysis. For that she needs hematology analyzer machine, type Sysmex KX21N. Her second wish is to create childbirth room. Place itslef, and bed are ready, but nuns lack professional childbirth equipment, napkins, painkillers.

 Simba Friends Foundation wants to help Ewe making her dreams come true. When we know that a single napkin cost here just 1,5 PLN, napkin box is about 50 PLN, simple childbirht complete is just about 100 - 300 PLN it makes it incredible to think how big change in Ririoni such a little cost can bring. If a woman who lives there will know that there is a save and hygienic place to give a birth and get some napkins, she might be really encouraged to keep the child and stay in the village.

  We invite You All to join our action! Everyone who want to help Ewe is welcome to transfer donation through the Simba Friends Foundation account or in Euros or Dollars send it directly to the missionary on the account number: Sister  Ewa Kaczmarek, MISSIONARY SISTERS OF THE HOLY FAMILY, NIC Bank LTD, The Mall Branch, Westland-Nairobi. N/Ac-ISA-2-120-000060, SWIFT CODE: NINCKENA.

  We accept also personal donations and material aid. Everyone who can assist us with child-delivery equipment, napkins, painkillers, medical materials is welcome to bring or send it to SFF office or inform us about the place of reception.