Hospice Care Kenya

Our Summer Newsletter is now out! This issue we are sharing an overview of our impact on the lives of people living with terminal illness in Kenya. Although we are a very small charity, with your support we achieved a lot last year and helped improve many lives.
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It’s #SmallCharityWeek and the day to celebrate the big impact that small charities make. Here is a snapshot of the impact we have made on helping people living with life-threatening illness in Kenya, over the last year http://www.hospicecarekenya.com/our-impac t/

Thank you to The James Tudor Foundation for their grant to help expand palliative care provision in rural and impoverished areas of Kenya. A further 150 Community Health Volunteers will be trained in four counties, to provide home based palliative care in their communities. This will make a huge difference to the lives of over 1,000 people living with terminal illness, improving their quality of life and reducing pain and symptoms. Read more here https://bit.ly/2K68vIR

Congratulations to Dr Zipporah Ali, Executive Director of Kenya Hospices and Palliative Care Association (KEHPCA), on being awarded the 2018 Women4Africa Humanitarian Award. Well-deserved recognition of her leadership in advocating for and developing palliative care in Kenya. https://bit.ly/2tbjaZ6

TICKETS STILL AVAILABLE FOR FRIDAY!! Join us for a feast of choral music and poetry from The Sussex Songmakers, in partnership with Brandenburg Choral Festival of London. Taking place at St Paul’s Covent Garden, London. 50% of ticket price will be donated to us! Find out more here https://bit.ly/2Gcr1dp

We are looking forward to another Poetry in the Crypt, taking place on Saturday 19th May in The Crypt at St Mary’s Islington at 7pm. The evening features works and readings from three published poets:
Martyn Crucefix is a London poet, translator and critic. His recent publications include The Lovely Disciplines (Seren, 2017) and two chapbooks; O. at the Edge of the Gorge (Guillemot Press, 2017) and A Convoy (If a Leaf Falls Press, 2017).
... Alwyn Marriage writes poetry, fiction and non-fiction. She has won first prize in several competitions and gives readings and workshops internationally. Her latest poetry collection, In the image: portraits of mediaeval women (Indigo Dreams), and her first novel, Rapeseed (Stairwell Books) were published in 2017.
Will Stone is a poet and translator living in Suffolk. He also contributes reviews on art and literature to the TLS, Poetry Review, Agenda and The London Magazine. His first poetry collection, Glaciation (Salt, 2007), won the international Glen Dimplex Poetry Award in 2008. His second collection is Drawing in Ash (Salt, 2011).
Admission costs £5 on the door with all proceeds supporting Hospice Care Kenya. Poets from the floor are welcome to participate, and free cakes and coffee will be provided!
St Mary’s Church is on Upper Street, London N1 2TX, midway between Angel and Highbury/Islington tube stations. Buses 4, 19, 30 and 43. For more information click on the e-flyer above or contact Nancy Mattson: nmattson@sampo.plus.com
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Book your tickets now! – As part of the Brandenburg Choral Festival of London, on 27th April, The Sussex Song Makers will bring a feast of music and poetry to St. Paul’s Church, Covent Garden, London. Supporting Hospice Care Kenya with 50% of cost of ticket sales donated! More info here https://bit.ly/2Gcr1dp

We are looking forward to entertaining you with another evening of choral music, brought to you in partnership with Brandenburg Choral Festival of London. The Sussex Song Makers, directed by Elizabeth Muir-Lewis, will bring you a feast of music and poetry.
The evening offers a real mix, and includes Fauré’s sublime Cantique de Jean Racine, Mozart’s sparkling Laudate Dominum, Hungarian and Spanish Songs, and songs, arias and duets by Bach, Binge, Mendelssohn, Quilter and Schub...ert, to name but a few. In between musical offerings, these multitalented singers will perform some of their favourite poetry, making this concert a true celebration of words and music, and bound to contain something for everyone. Accompaniment will be provided on the piano by Jennie Beckwith and on the violin by Katie Hoad-Hitchings and Lizzie Howard. Full programme details at http://www.hospicecarekenya.com/…/bach- to-betjeman-a-feast…/
Brandenburg Choral Festival will kindly donate 50% of standard price ticket sales, bought through the link below, to us.
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This Saturday in Islington, London - another fabulous evening of poetry. Don't miss it! All proceeds to Hospice Care Kenya.

The evening features works and readings from three published poets:
John McCullough’s first collection of poems, The Frost Fairs, won the Polari First Book Prize in 2012 and was a Book of the Year for The Independent and a summer read in The Observer. His new collection, Spacecraft, was named one of The Guardian’s Best Books for Summer and shortlisted for the Ledbury-Forte prize.
Kate Noakes writes poetry, short fiction, novels and non-fiction. Her most recent poetry collecti...ons are Paris, Stage Left (Eyewear Publishing, 2017) and Tattoo on Crow Street (Parthian, 2015).
Clare Pollard has published five collections of poetry with Bloodaxe, most recently Incarnation (2017).
Admission costs £5 on the door with all proceeds supporting Hospice Care Kenya. Poets from the floor are welcome to participate, and free cakes and coffee will be provided!
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This is the story of Ken, an 8 year old boy with cancer, and his family. Read his story here, and if you can, please support our appeal to help more children like him. http://bit.ly/2plh4TL

In an important step forward for palliative care services in Kenya, the development of Kenya’s first National Palliative Care Policy is underway. Read more... http://www.ehospice.com/…/Ar…/23349/l anguage/en-GB/View.aspx

This is Marytreza, a breast cancer survivor and community health volunteer for Nyeri Hospice. Here she is raising awareness of cancer through her local radio station. Read her story here http://bit.ly/2oSMRfy

Peris Wandera (pictured far right) is a registered nurse and midwife. She retired from the Kenyan health service in 2002. Peris met many patients throughout her career with terminal illness living in unbearable pain, and resolved to continue working to help them. At the age of 64 Peris completed a Higher Diploma in Palliative Care.
Peris says; “My eyes were opened on control pain and the suffering of patients with terminal illness and their families.”
... “On returning back home my desire to help terminally ill patients was high. I started visiting patients in the wards particularly to see patients with cancer and those with HIV. I identified 10 at once in great pain, some needing referral for further management.”
Peris worked hard to form a team of professionals to provide palliative care, find training for them, then secure a room for a hospice and vital resources such as morphine. In 2014 Peris launched Busia Hospice. Today she leads the work of Busia Hospice as hospice coordinator, supported by a team of community health volunteers, bringing essential palliative care to people in need in Busia County.
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It’s International Women’s Day, a global day celebrating the social, economic, cultural and political achievements of women. Today we will be sharing the stories of just a few of the incredible women making a huge difference to the lives of people with life-limiting condition in Kenya, through their hard work in palliative care. Please share their stories and inspire others!

Today we’re supporting International Childhood Cancer Day. Did you know that in low to middle income countries, of 10 children diagnosed with cancer, only 1 or 2 survive. This is an injustice. All children diagnosed with cancer in the world deserve a right to access to essential medicines and quality care. #ICCD2018 #ChildhoodCancer #TransformCare4cancerkids

A huge thank you to everyone who supported the concert at Malvern Priory on Saturday. It was a fantastic success with around 250 people filling the Priory to enjoy the evening of choral music. Thank you especially to Iain and Gwyn Sloan who organised the event in aid of Hospice Care Kenya and worked so hard to make it such an amazing success http://bit.ly/2EKM8DJ