Kenya
Seva No 4: Reiki healing and presents to the children in the oncology wards, Kenyatta National Hospital 27 Nov 2011
By Dee Hockey LHSG Kenya (Thursday group)
On Sunday 27th November a group from the Saturday Lotus Healing Seva group plus Jean and Dee from the Thursday group went to visit the children’s Oncology wards at the Kenyatta National Hospital to give the children Reiki and some lovely gifts of story books, colouring and activity books and crayons. We also gave them some toothpaste and pampers. When she arrived Kamal said she thought we had far to many presents and we wouldn’t need them all. Well that was definitely not the case, it turned out to be like the feeding of the 5 thousand!!
This visit was organised by Shamim from the Saturday group and she had arranged with Mr Ithai to meet us and show us around the wards. He met us along with quite a few of his colleagues who also escorted us.
The first ward we visited was the ” Israeli” ward because all the renovations had been paid for by the Israeli Embassy. However all except 3 of the children had gone off to church. We spoke to the remaining children and gave them some presents, then we gave them Reiki. The other children from this ward were out side after Church and some were playing football, but others were quite ill in wheel chairs. They were very excited to be given books and colours and they received a lot of Reiki from us. Many photographs were taken and they sung us a lovely song.
At this point we did not realise we had 4 more cancer wards to visit in the main part of the hospital! This was a very different experience because there were just so many little children running around everywhere. They wanted to touch us and see what we were carrying and they kept trying to open the bags of gifts. We were ushered into the first ward which contained about 10 cots, each with 2 sick little children in. Apart from the patients there were many siblings and relatives all crammed into the small room and many other children were trying to get inside the ward especially when we started to give out the presents we had. It was very difficult to know who were the patients and who were the visitors. We were then taken to the next ward where much the same thing happend. As we left each ward we gave some Reiki to each room.
We were still being followed by all these tiny little people desperate for a book who were told they could not have one unless they were on their bed, however this instruction fell on deaf ears! After the 2nd ward we realised we had nearly run out of presents so Kamal and some of the other ladies decided to give the last few things to the children who were in the corridor, which caused a near riot!!! We who were at the back quickly started giving Reiki to the situation and it calmed down, thankfully before poor Kamal was mobbed!
It was a chastening experience for us all to see so many sick children and I think we all wished we could have done more. We felt the hospital was quite clean and considering how many sick children there were the staff were doing a great job of caring for them.
Thank you for organising the visit Shamim and I think it made us all realise that we need an unending supply of gifts if we are going to repeat the trip!
The Sevaks that did Seva at the KNH were: Jean, Fhanreet, Vaishali, Ushma, Amita, Dipti, Shobhna, Sandeep, Shamim, Dee and Kamal. Please read some of their comments below:
Sandeep LHSG Saturday….The visit to KNH/Children’s ward was full of emotions for me. An eye opener and 2 lessons I took home, once again: “don’t take it for granted” and “learn to count blessings than complaining for what is missing”. Those kids despite their medical/physical situation were full of light and smiles. Today, I value even more the words we were taught in Reiki Level 1 “Just for today I will live the attitude of gratitude”.
Shobhna LHSG Saturday ….The visit to KNH to oncology children’s ward on sunday was amazing. In spite of their illnesses most of the children were very warm and cheerful souls. It was a sheer pleasure to offer them seva with love and light. I felt bad for not having enough presents for them. But we did not know their exact numbers.My apologies to those souls who were totally disappointed and showed it by crying loudly for not getting a colouring book or crayons. We can feel other person’s pain when we visit such places. As a rule we take too much for granted. I have put these children in my list for healing on a daily basis.
Dipti Haria LHSG Saturday …… the Sunday Seva was a very gratifying and humbling experience. There is no better feeling than knowing we have made a positive impact on these very special children s’ lives. We should continue helping these wonderful children and giving them Reiki on a continuous basis.
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