Shoe4Africa Childrens Hospital

The Shoe4Africa Children's Hospital is a public children's hospital in Eldoret, the capital of Uasin Gishu County, Kenya.

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, South Africa, which opened in 1956.

Construction began in 2013, and the hospital officially opened on August 12, 2015. Initially a 105-bed hospital, it had been extended to 200 beds by 2018.

The Shoe4Africa Children's Hospital operates as a teaching hospital in partnership with Moi University. Moi Teaching and Referral Hospital, Kenya's second-largest national hospital, governs the Shoe4Africa Children's Hospital, which is built within its government grounds.

It is the principal project of Shoe4Africa, a New York charity focused on creating better health and education outcomes in Eastern Africa. Kenya's Daily Nation reported that celebrities like Cristiano Ronaldo, Anthony Edwards, and Natalie Portman are some of the donors who supported the charity for this hospital.

The project is expected to cost, when completed, two billion Kenyan shillings. Link

Construction of a dedicated kitchen facility to be located next to the children's hospital started in 2016; it is planned to provide child-friendly nutrition for malnourished patients at the hospital.

In the summer of 2017, annexed buildings were constructed to alleviate overcrowding, the first to be used as an immunization center for healthy children and HIV patients, and the second as a play center to complement the four interior playrooms. In 2018, a basketball court was added for patients and medical school students. The charity announced that a soccer pitch would follow to help children rehabilitate and in May 2019, an astroturf soccer pitch was opened. Later in the year, the Kuunga Mkono classrooms were added to the hospital, making the institution the first hospital in Africa to have children's classrooms inside its complex.

In 2022, Shoe4Africa celebrated treating its millionth patient.

Planned facilities


Construction of the Harry J. Dyer Burns Unit, a planned 35-bed center for treating burns, started in December 2023.

Also planned is a 152-bed pediatric cancer hospital, the Shoe4Africa Juli Anne Perry Children's Cancer Hospital, to be built next door to the children's facility to improve on the existing 30-bed ward space. Construction started in January 2024.