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Board member Fritz Oidtmann visits the health centre in the Kibera slum – Nairobi, Kenya – which has been rebuilt by Tulisa.
Amid the dispute over rigged results in the Kenyan presidential election (on 27 December 2007), massive ethnically motivated outbreaks of violence occurred across the country, including in the capital, Nairobi (as reported by Tulisa).
More than 1,000 people were killed in the bloody unrest, and more than 300,000 fled the violence: 250,000 people – some of whom are still there today – often lived in poor conditions in refugee camps or with relatives.
Against this backdrop, in Nairobi’s notorious Kibera slum, a health centre run by the Lutheran Church of Kenya was burnt to the ground and completely destroyed. Due to the extreme poverty and often utter destitution of the inhabitants of this slum, Tulisa decided to rebuild this health centre, in collaboration with the local Lutheran parish and its contacts in the USA and Canada.
As Fritz Oidtmann was able to see for himself during a project visit – which he, of course, funded himself – the health centre is now fully operational once again: it has consultation rooms, a dispensary stocked with essential medicines and a second-hand ultrasound machine for examining, in particular, pregnant women and patients with unexplained abdominal symptoms. In conversation with Dr Moses Odiyo, our Kenyan doctor who regularly volunteers there, and the nurse Dotty, he was able to gain a vivid insight into the day-to-day medical work, speak personally with patients and thus see for himself the meaningful and beneficial use being made of your donations.