Being born in Rironi

Simba Friends Foundation started a new project called: "African dispensary with Polish soul". Our aim is to support nuns' which work in a small dispensary in Rironi, Central Kenya. The story of Sister Ewe was presented on our website already; now it is a time to say something more about villagers she takes care for.

The village is situated 30 km out of Nairobi; there are living 4000 people, whose main income comes form a small business, and local market activities. Close distance to the capitol has two sides, on the one hand is brings people profit, bacause they can take and sell goods in Nairobi, on the other hand it is a gate to pathological behaviors, prositution, drugs, HIV problem. Many young people from villges surrounding the city are ending on its streets and in the black market. Young girls who could not make it to study in Nairobi often try prostitution as a fast income source, but then they get sick, and go back to their families in shame and bad condition. Situation of ladies who stay in the village is not better, because if their families cannot support them, such girls live on a poor level, get married early and suffer to deliver and rise their kids.

Pregnancy is a challenge for a lady from Rironi. Why? Majority of woman is not able to pay costs of transport to the hospital and delivery in there. Mostly ladies choose to deliver baby in their own house, even thou it was forbidden in Kenya due to high risk of child and mother helath. To aviod problems with police and to have hygienic environment of the birth, females go to ordinary dispensaries, hoping for help of nuns. Such situation is well known to Ewe and other sisters of St. Andrews dispensary in Rironi. All emergency cases are supported there, also urgent and troublesome child-deliveries.

Difficult situtaion of ladies motivated Ewe to start the process of opening a room for Child and Mother Care. Place and bad are ready for the patients, but Ewe lacks equipment and necessary materials. If she would have prfessional materials for child delivery help she could officially open the Child and Mother Care Room. This would solve problem with home births, secret abortions, health troubles after unsafe delivery.

The Simba Friends Foundations invites You all to join our aid action for Ewe. We welcome all medical goods and financial support which you are able to give. From the equipment which is the most needed in the dispensary we look for:

- umbilical cold scissors;

- perineum cutting scissors;

- materials for perineum sewing;

- blankets; needles, surgery sewing net, disinfection liquids.

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.

You are welcome to bring or send medical material to SFF office or inform us about the place of its collecting in Poland.

You are welocme to watch our short movie made in Rironi in October 2007 by the volunteer Ania Janczur.