The Kenyan hospices send us ideas and projects for which they need money. Past examples are:
We try not to be involved with day to day running costs which we feel should be funded locally.
Both the hospices and HCK expect good accountability for funds provided. All the hospices produce audited annual accounts which are a pre-condition of HCK making funds available.
For more information and reports from Kenya have a look at our recent newsletters.
HCK's trustees, most of whom have lived or worked in Kenya, visit our friends in Kenya regularly for liaison meetings with the hospices - at the trustees' own expense.
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The Kenyan hospices work with outpatients or visit the patient's own home. There are now at least 32 hospices or palliative care units, including those at Nairobi, Nakuru, Nyeri, Eldoret, Kisumu, Meru, Coast (Mombasa), Nyahururu and within Kijabe and Chogoria hospitals.
Highly qualified doctors, nurses, social workers, volunteers and other healthcare professionals bring care and comfort to those who would otherwise suffer unspeakably.
HCK now supports the work of at least ten of the hospices and their outreach clinics, which provide palliative care (symptom control and promoting quality of life) to people dying from painful terminal illnesses including HIV/AIDS.
HCK also supports the education and professional development of doctors, nurses and other medical professionals working in palliative care in Kenya, particularly by supporting the Nairobi Hospice / Oxford Brookes University Diploma course in Palliative Care (Dip. HE) taught at Nairobi Hospice, or by helping to finance other training opportunities for staff and students in Kenya..
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Graduation day for Diploma HE nurses, in the British High Commission garden, Nairobi.