Kenya Fundraiser Has Food, Music Sept. 26
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Del.icio.usFriends of a Kaneohe woman are having a special fundraiser Sept. 26 in Hawaii Kai to help her buy a generator for a struggling rural hospital in mountainous Kenya that has one staff doctor.
The generator, priced at about $12,000, can kick on automatically when the 30-bed Githumu Hospital is hit by blackouts from frequent thunderstorms.
The hospital was built on the spot where Alice Yoder was born 90 years ago to missionary parents. Yoder moved from Kenya when she was 3, but the Kaneohe widow has made several visits as recently as last year to see how the hospital is doing. In 2008, she and her friends, including those from First Presbyterian Church at Koolau, staged a garage sale to pay for drilling a well to bring a stable supply of fresh water to the facility.
“We raised almost $50,000 from that one,” said Nancy Schoocraft, whose home will host part of the Sept. 26 event. She noted that Githumu “had never received any monetary aid before.”
The benefit, “Thai, Tunes and Truffles,” begins at 6 p.m. with dinner at Thai Valley Cuisine in Kalama Village Center, followed at 8 p.m. by a parlor performance by Beebe Freitas and Leon Williams at 345 Kealahou St. Donation is $75 100 percent tax-deductible and reservations can be made by calling Schoocraft at 396-0687. Make checks payable to “Africa Faith Mission” with a memo to Githumu Hospital.
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