Each month, our partners at The Nathan Hall Williams Center help analyze the unmet healthcare needs of communities and then create opportunities for frontline healthcare workers to participate in further training and if necessary, sharpen skill sets, to meet those needs. This month our sponsored training was at Menengai Dispensary, where the demand for family planning continues to rise above the availability of commodities. The Nakuru County government and partners intend to meet this need by availing new (to the community) types of reversible, long term family planning methods. Additional types of intrauterine contraceptive devices (IUDs) and innovative, self-administered injections called DMPA-SCs, will now be available to this community and many others in the coming months. These family planning methods will not only help mitigate some of the common side effects people report from using other available methods, but will also allow for more autonomy for individuals as well.

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We strongly believe in reproductive health justice and that everyone has a right to have children, a right to not have children, and a right to raise the children they do have in a safe and healthy environment. Your contribution to our health projects supports important initiatives like this. Thank you!

Our first benefit albums which were released in 2011 and 2013 are finally on bandcamp. Go check it out here: hardcorehelp.bandcamp.com

Good news. In the next days we can continue with our rehabilitation water projects in Kitui, Kenya. We received another great sponsorship from the good people of Tools for Life Foundation. Our next project with local partner FundiFix will be an Improvement of the access to clean and safe water for 3,500 people in Mwingi North, Kitui County, Kenya. More updates following in the next days.

Fundraiser Link: https://www.facebook.com/donate/253895154058670/838819487603903/

+ over 100 pairs of sneakers and 1300 bottles of showergel. From the latest profit made from the bandmerch shop we bought sneakers and showergel. Everything will be distributed in the next days. Thanks for the great support.

More Than Music - Volume 1 will be released on March 24 2023. Pre-order Tape Edition & Digital Version available at our Bandcamp page:

https://hardcorehelp.bandcamp.com

Volume 1 featuring 14 bands, every song has a message. Thanks to all the bands for their contribution: GIVER , Znous زنوس, Negative Thirteen, NOCIVA PROJECT , Death Pill , My Turn , VÄISTÄ , AliveInside , Vægtløs , Scraps , Polka Distortion , A Point Of Protest , Bad Assumption & Watch me Rise .

Tape Edition is limited to 100.

Together with Lüdenscheid entrepreneurs Mymarktstand, Gruenzeugs_luedenscheid, Testzentrum_safi and Peoplelikemachines we collected donations for the earthquake victims in Turkey and Syria for two weeks in February. The fundraising campaign raised a total of 6827, EUR. Half of the donation will be given to affected village Küpelikiz köyü, Dulkadiroglu, and the other half will be used for delivering relief goods to Syria throughout our logistic network. We would like to thank all the people who supported us in this action. We will continue to work on it.

Yesterday our partner in Kenya did wheelchair donations to Rachael, Edwin & Triza Kate in Nakuru. They were very happy to get a new wheelchair.

For our mobility project in Kenya we are still looking for functional wheelchairs. Devices are distributed on site by our partner The Nathan Hall Williams Center to support people who cannot afford to get one. People with disabilities face difficult circumstances as they wait unimaginable amounts of time for help. We are humbled to be able to empower these deserving individuals with the gift of independence! Please get in touch if you can help us out! Whether your contribution is in kind or in monetary donations, it makes a difference!

Yesterday, we continued our monthly training support for healthcare workers in Nakuru County with a training on eclampsia, a dangerous high blood pressure disorder. Eclampsia is when patients with preeclampsia develop seizures and/or coma during pregnancy. This life threatening disorder affects 2-8% of pregnancies locally and is the second leading cause of maternal mortality in Nakuru County. Our partners at The Nathan Hall Williams Center provided an opportunity for healthcare workers from Bondeni Maternity, Lanet Health Centre, Mirugi Kariuki Health Centre, and Langa Langa Sub-County Hospital to gain mastery and practice hands-on skills for managing patients who present with this condition at their facilities. These training drills are critical to supporting healthcare workers in their endeavor to reduce maternal and neonatal mortality in Nakuru County and countrywide.

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Thank you to everyone continuing to support our health projects in Kenya. Your donations are making a direct impact on the quality of care and patient outcomes in communities across Nakuru County!

Our thoughts are with the many victims of the earthquake in Turkey and Syria. We would like to get involved with our community as well. We want to support a village in eastern Turkey, about 25 km from Kahramanmaraş. All houses are destroyed. The survivors are in shock. The first nights outdoor temperature were minus 8-12 degrees. There is neither electricity nor running water.  We are personally in contact with people on the ground, they told us it’s best to collect money first to provide direct and rapid assistance on the ground. We are trying to plan further actions through our network to support regions in Syria as well. Saturday 29 April we’re planning a benefit show at AJZ Lüdenscheid

Donation account: 

HARDCORE HELP FOUNDATION gUG

IBAN: DE43 4306 0967 1161 3566 00

PayPal: paypal.me/hardcorehelp

Keyword Earthquake Relief 

You would like to help us with collecting donations? Your band has a show coming up or you’re organizing an event? We can send you a donation can, some stickers and info materials. For information get in touch by mail info@hardcore-help.org