Order of St John of Jerusalem of
Rhodes and of Malta
The Companions of the Order of Malta Kenya held its first physical meeting this week at the Orders Embassy Residence in Gigiri.
On the 12th September, Sam Mattock, the Secretary at the Embassy of the Order of Malta to Kenya formally signed the Book of Condolance for Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II, on behalf of HE Wilhelm von Trott zu Solz the Orders Ambassador to Kenya, at the Residence of HE Jane Marriott the British High Commisioner to Kenya.
In May of this year, the Chancellor of the Order of St. John met with Malteser International (Kenya) to exchange ideas on how they, together with the Order of Malta, could pool their efforts in supporting First Aid Trainings for the much needed Emergency First Responders.
The Companions of the Order to Kenya are extremely grateful and happy for the fantastic response it received to its appeal a few months ago.
In Nairobi, the capital of Kenya, over 60% of the people live in informal settlement. Most of the residents who live here are day laborers with low, irregular incomes. They usually live in overcrowded and poorly ventilated accommodation. Here, diseases such as tuberculosis are easy to spread from one person to the next through droplet infection.
During the Omicron wave of the COVID-19 pandemic in Kenya, remote counties such as Marsabit were especially heavily hit due to generally low vaccination availability and misinformation.
Three consecutive rainy seasons have brought far below average rainfalls in Kenya especially in the Arid and Semi-Arid Lands like North Horr in Marsabit County which are in urgent need of aid.
The Kakuma Mission Hospital has rapidly grown into an essential hospital for the local communities, as well as serving as a referral hospital for the refugees from the Kakuma Refugee Camp.
For the launching of its Emergency Operation Centre and Ambulance Dispatch Centre, the Nairobi Metropolitan Services cordially invited the Embassy of the Order of Malta to attend the event.