Shoe4Africa Children's Hospital

Shoe4Africa Children's Hospital is a public pediatric hospital in Eldoret, Kenya. It was built in 2015. It is the first dedicated public children's hospital in East and Central Africa, and the second in Sub-Saharan Africa, after the Red Cross War Memorial Children's Hospital in Cape Town, which was established in 1956. The hospital is a major project of Shoe4Africa, a New York-based charity focused on health and education in Eastern Africa. Its construction cost an estimated two billion Kenyan shillings and was partially funded by donations from international celebrities, including Cristiano Ronaldo, Anthony Edwards, and Natalie Portman. The Shoe4Africa Children's Hospital operates as a teaching hospital in partnership with Moi University. It is governed by the Moi Teaching and Referral Hospital, Kenya's second-largest national hospital, which is built upon the same Government owned land. As of 2024, the hospital treats over 430 inpatients and outpatients daily.

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