Mr Mereke's Washing Machine
by chrisw
on Feb 10, 2010 8:49 pm.
During Mr Mereke's visit in November 2007 he gave a very informative presentation about the needs of the hospital. A member of the audience asked what he would want if he could be granted just one wish. He thought for a while - many of us thought he might wish for a solution to the political problems of his country or something similar - but he said he would like a washing machine.
This sounded simple enough but it's not just any washing machine that's needed. He explained that all of the soiled linen of this 85 bed hospital, which sees over 300 patients a day, is washed by hand!
A proper industrial washing machine would be the only way to make things easier, but this represents a bit of a challenge!
Fund raising was boosted by a generous donation of £500 from St John's Church in Crowthorne and with help from Rotary Australia, who donated AUS$6000 towards the project the washing machine has now been purchased.
Because of the depreciation of the British currency, it ended up costing £9,785.
