What we do

2010-04-04T21:00:00.006+01:00

The hospices in Kenya send us ideas and projects for which they need money. Past examples are:

Training doctors attached to the hospices.
Helping to buy vehicles so that home visits can be made to patients. Vehicles have to be rugged 4wd to cope with bad roads.
Financing Diploma courses in palliative care for nurses.
Buying essential medicines.
Start-up funding for new hospices.
Building refurbishment.
Office equipment.
Subsidising nurses' and other medical staff salaries.

We try not to be involved with day to day running costs which we thnk should be funded locally. Both the hospices and HCK expect good accountability for funds provided. All the hospices send us audited annual accounts as a pre-condition of HCK making funds available.

For more information and reports from Kenya have a look at our website and recent newsletters.

HCK's trustees, most of whom have lived or worked in Kenya, visit our friends in Kenya regularly, at their own expense, for liaison meetings with the hospices.

Trustees:
Miss Elizabeth Salmon, Chair

Mr David Worthington, Vice Chair

Mr Brian Lloyd, FCA, Hon. Treasurer

Mrs Sharron Catton
Dr Mike Hughes

Dr Sally Hull
Ms Sue Russell

Mr Michael Smalley

Staff:
Patrick Villa, Office Manager

Welcome - Karibu!

2009-06-13T10:14:00.004+01:00

Welcome to our new blog site. Hospice Care Kenya (HCK) is an independent UK charity established in 1991 to promote the development of the hospice movement in Kenya. It currently supports the work of nine hospices and their outreach centres which provide palliative care - symptom control and promoting the quality of life - to people dying from painful terminal illnesses, including HIV/AIDS.

Highly qualified doctors, nurses, social workers, volunteers and other healthcare professionals bring care and comfort to those who would otherwise suffer unspeakably. The Kenyan hospices work with outpatients or visit the patient's own home. Many terminally-ill patients have to travel long distances from rural areas for treatment. Currently the the hospices HCK supports include those at Nairobi, Nyeri, Eldoret, Kisumu, Meru, Coast (Mombasa), Nakuru, Nyahururu and a Palliative Care Unit within Kijabe Hospital. To find out more about them or donate to their work through HCK visit our website at www.hospicecarekenya.com or e-mail hck@hospicecarekenya.com. Donations can also be made via CAF (Charities Aid Foundation) and JustGiving.

Read our latest newsletter here.