Since its establishment in 1998, the objective of the EJ Rihoy Charitable Trust has been to improve livelihoods and increase opportunities of some of the worlds most impoverished communities.
We received an update from Jim, the Construction Project Manager on the Segera Mission Hospital project in Laikipia, Kenya. Originally, the Trust set out to fund a 20-bed maternity clinic but thanks to the initial support of the Trust and Guernsey Overseas Aid & Development Commission (GOADC), this seed funding was leveraged by our local partners, the Segera Mission Foundation, to gain considerable additional support from the Kenyan Government, and Kenyan supporters.
The result is the expansion of this project into a fully-fledged County referral hospital, set to open in 2025. In addition to providing maternity facilities, this will provide pediatric, surgical, occupational and general medical facilities to hundreds of thousands of people from Laikipia and neighbouring Counties who currently have to travel huge distances to access even the most basic of health care facilities. When opened Segera Mission Hospital will save the lives and improve the living standards of thousands in Laikipia and beyond.
Posted: 19 November 2024