Students from The Chinese University of Hong Kong

Over the last year, Arrow Web Hospital has been honored to welcome a variety of guests at our facility.  We truly believe in building strong partnerships within the international health community and part of that involves supporting promising students working through their medical training program.  This year, Arrow Web Hospital welcomed several students from the Chinese University of Hong Kong.  The students traveled to Kenya as part of a 2-week medical elective. Yukie, Kent, Aggie, Clive, Shan and Zaida worked under the guidance of the Arrow Web Hospital staff.  We sincerely hope that this was a valuable learning experience for each of the students and that it will serve them well in the future as they begin their professional careers.  We would also like to thank the students for their donating a box of medical gloves to our facility.

Community Health Improvement Seminar

Arrow Web Hospital partnered with the Embakasi District Health Nurse's Office and recently held a seminar at the Hotel Central Park Nairobi.  This partnership was initiated by Mrs. Florence, Arrow Web Hospital's Community Outreach Team Leader.  The seminar's focus was on community health improvements.  All of the community health centers and clinics in Embakasi were invited to attend. We discussed the importance of networking among the existing health care providers.  All involved agreed that a coordinating team should be selected and we are happy to report that one of the Arrow Web Hospital doctors was chosen to lead this team. The event was more successful than we ever anticipated.  We are all looking forward to working in collaboration to promote healthy living in our community.

Alison Lowndes from AVIF Visits Arrow Web Hospital

Alison Lowndes, the founder of AVIF in the UK, recently traveled to Kenya and paid a visit to Bramuel and the Arrow Web Hospital staff.  Alison is actively working to help the hospital raise the funds necessary to pay for a shipping container to get needed medical equipment from the UK to the hospital in Kenya.  The shipping container will be filled with equipment donated by UK based charity, Aid to Hospitals Worldwide.

(Did you notice the great bicycles from Tour D'Afrique in the picture above?)

You can help us raise the funds necessary to ship this life saving equipment to Kenya - you can make an online donation by clicking here and visiting our page at Just Giving.

It is critical that these funds be raised before July 2010 to pay for the container to ship as planned.

Help Fund a Shipping Container Filled with Medical Supplies

You may notice the JustGiving widget that was added to the blog this week.  Last year, Alison Lowndes of AVIF told us about Aid 2 Hospitals Worldwide in the UK.  Alison made a trip to visit them and found out what would be necessary for the hospital to receive help obtaining the medical equipment we are currently lacking.  We are happy to report that the fantastic people at Aid 2 Hospitals Worldwide have managed to source an entire container-full of urgently needed medical and surgical equipment for the hospital, but now we need to work on raising the funds necessary to get the container from the UK to Nairobi.  

You can help us get this container to Nairobi.  We need your help.  Every little bit takes us that much closer to reaching our goal.  Please visit our fundraising page at http://www.justgiving.com/arrowweb and consider giving what you can.  

Even if you cannot help by donating money - some of the other ways that you can help include:

1.  Share a link to our fundraising page on Twitter or Facebook.

2.  Write about our hospital on your blog or share the fundraising widget.

3.  Share a link to the fundraiser in your email signature.

We really appreciate your support.  It will go a long way toward helping us promote healthy living and better serve our community.

Supporting Survivors of Sexual Assault

Arrow Web Hospital has opened a rescue center for women and girls who are survivors of sexual assault in our community.  So far, 30 women and girls have benefited from treatment.  Once treatment is obtained, we provide the women with a letter to take to the police.  We have hired a new doctor who will dedicate time to this to the center.

TOUR D'AFRIQUE DONATES 15 ADDITIONAL BICYCLES

Many of you may remember that last year, Tour D'Afrique made a generous donation of bicycles for the Arrow Web Hospital community health team.  We are so pleased to share pictures from this year's bicycle donation ceremony held again at the beautiful Indaba East Africa Campsite in Nairobi.  Tour D'Afrique has made another very generous donation of 15 bicycles to Arrow Web Hospital.  We thank you for making it possible for us to reach out to more and more people.  Enjoy the pictures from the ceremony!

Watching the children of the Masai community dance for the bicycle donation ceremony.

Volunteers looking on watching the children dance.

Chairman of Arrow Web Hospital chatting with members of the Masai community.

Mike with the Chairman of Arrow Web Hospital.

One of the Arrow Web Hospital doctors addressing those in attendance at the bicycle donation ceremony.

Chairman of Arrow Web Hospital with the bicycles donated to our community health team.

Making a Difference for Women and Children

It's hard to believe that January is almost over.  We wanted to share a few pictures with you of things going on around the hospital. We are always so happy to be the first ones to welcome the newest members of our community to the world.

Two of our doctors discussing patient care.

A doctor checking on a patient on the ward.

A new mother proudly holding her baby.

In active labor waiting to give birth.

A doctor with patients in the examining room.