“Matata” always has an open ear
Koni Holderegger reports on rheintaler.ch about his visit to the Rhein-Valley Hospital in Kenya, the hospital that his brother Stephan built together with Ruth Schäfer twelve years ago.
Koni Holderegger reports on rheintaler.ch about his visit to the Rhein-Valley Hospital in Kenya, the hospital that his brother Stephan built together with Ruth Schäfer twelve years ago.
Life is beautiful - but not always easy. Born in 1947, Stephan Holderegger has suffered from cystic fibrosis since birth. This is a chronic, progressive disease that cannot be cured.
It is not left out that the floor in the Rhine Valley Hospital has worn out. For more than a dozen years, many, many feet have walked over it every day. Now he is like again !
The whole team around Mama Matata sends Christmas greetings from Kenya to Switzerland and the whole world. Especially at Christmas, it is important to them to say "Thank you!" for the great support from our patrons.
Dear patrons, on the occasion of the 10th birthday of the Hospital of Hope, we had the pleasure to celebrate a big party. Part of it was the premiere of the documentary film "The promise - the long breath of Stephan Holderegger".
On ProHeerbrugg's open day, Robert Hangartner moved his studio outdoors. At the main entrance of the stores "Am Markt" he worked a female figure out of a tree trunk with a chainsaw. Now him the club off.
He lives in Nakuru and earns his living as a Clinical Officer at Rhine Valley Hospital. Alex Muga Nyabuto is a doctor and a great support to our hospital manager Ruth Schäfer, because he takes care of the patients with a lot of dedication and medical expertise.
It took many years until the two containers with relief supplies for our Rhine Valley Hospital could make their way from the Rhine Valley to Kenya. Now it is soon done, the borders of the country he crossed this week. Now the relief supplies still have to reach their final destination, our hospital.
Recently Kühnis Brillen and Kühnis Hörwelt celebrated their 50th anniversary with a festive event in Scoul. The employees had collected and handed over a check worth 4000 Swiss francs to the management, Erich and Peter Kühnis.
The board of the Rhine-Valley Hospital Association was represented with a stand at the August market in Altstätten and held a children's vaccination day.
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