Our mission
We defend fundamental rights where they are not guaranteed, first of all the right to health. Because every human being has the right to live a dignified and healthy life. We work in world peripheries, where poverty and social injustices are extreme. In doing so we mainly employ local staff to promote the autonomy of the communities.
We do not want to respond only to today's needs, but guarantee lasting change tomorrow. We do this by providing all the services necessary for a full life: social development and health care, health education and training, protection and promotion of fundamental rights, care and research.
Ruaraka Uhai Neema Hospital
R.U. Neema is the hospital we founded in Nairobi, where we train local healthcare professionals and guarantee medical care to the most vulnerable segments of population. We welcome and assist more than 100.000 patients every year: pregnant women, children with disabilities, people living below the poverty threshold.
On the field in Kenya
With our field projects we promote health, education and nutrition. We reach our beneficiaries in the most disadvantaged areas: the slums, the slums of Nairobi, the Maasai villages, without access to running water and sanitation and where many endemic diseases are widespread, and the coast of Kilifi, where we act to combat malnutrition and malaria.
Our action in Italy
In Italy we work to promote health and health education for people living in distress, especially for the homeless. Our aim is to ensure access for health services for the “invisible”.
We are convinced that being doctors in Nairobi enriches our lives and the lives of people around us. We believe that health must be an equal right for all: this is why we offer safe health pathways by giving importance to staff training in order to ensure effective diagnosis and treatment.
We have been donating to the Banjuka project in support of the Baba Dogo slum children for many years, because we want to offer them a place where they are welcomed and free to express themselves. We know that this has positive effects on their upbringing and it inspires and fills us with joy.
World Friends listened to our story and helped us. My daughter gave birth at R.U. Neema Hospital, but the baby was too little. Many wondered if both of them could make it. Thanks to World Friends my daughter is fine and my granddaughter never goes to sleep hungry.
You can do your part too
Your support helps children with disabilities, young mothers and their children, pregnant women, people who cannot afford basic medical care. For the last 20 years, we have been carrying out our projects in Kenya and Italy.
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Transparency
From our magazine
THE ATITB PROJECT IN KAJIADO COUNTY CONCLUDES
An important recognition for the RU Neema Hospital
THE ATITB PROJECT IN KAJIADO COUNTY CONCLUDES
Presentation event of the crowdfunding campaign "A wheelchair in the hut, a door to the world"
From our magazine
THE ATITB PROJECT IN KAJIADO COUNTY CONCLUDES
An important recognition for the RU Neema Hospital
THE ATITB PROJECT IN KAJIADO COUNTY CONCLUDES
Presentation event of the crowdfunding campaign "A wheelchair in the hut, a door to the world"
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