Setting off later than we’d intended – a measure of any day here, go with the flow and it will happen! – we arrived by taxi at Sembeti to meet Mr Tem, the Home Based Care (HBC) who has been a stalwart support to the Care & Treatment Centre...
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HIPPO NEW YEAR (AND WE AIN’T LION)!
January 9, 2014 Hamjambo rafiki wangu Here we are in Kilema! We arrived yesterday (Wednesday) afternoon to a very warm, extended Tanzanian welcome after adventures on safari and in the cities of Arusha and Moshi. Our afternoon walk was sidetracked by many sistas (nuns) wanting to greet “Mama...
Of Bake Sales and Bottle Drives: Tanzania 2014
Supporting the education of students in Tanzania through Kilema Support Fund has always been a community effort and never more than this year where most of our volunteers are from the neighbourhood in Victoria. Traveling to Kilimanjaro December 30th for one month is Dr. Fiona Manning and daughter, Solana Phillips,...
Hospital Time
Hospital Time Feeling very thankful for medical donations from the Home and Community Care office on Cook Street, Cool Aid Community Health Centre, the baby scale from Dolly Freigang’s office and eye glasses from Audrey Takoski which nudged us into the hospital and various outpatient...
Visit With Mr. Tem
A Day with Mr. Tem Mr. Tem is a delightful man: a lay minister and HBC (Home Based Care). We met up with him at his Sembeti (home) where we delivered school supplies for distribution to local students and were treated to a delicious cup of milky chai. He...
Wanafunzi wingi…students galore!
Deo, Margot and Janine ...
Distribution Day
Distribution Day I think Distribution Day has been a day we have all been looking forward to. The day when we get to see all the children that are supported through CACHA (Canadian African Community Health Alliance), plus many more who are looking for any help they can get, receive...
Home Visits for Home Bound
A few years ago in 2010, Dr. Nyaki, Adella Kessy and Rosalia Mosha handed me palliative care proposal and expressed their interest in working, after their retirement, in the community to help people who are home bound and isolated with palliative illness. ‘Retired but not tired’ is a common approach...
Computers Find Homes
Computers Find Home Such a great day today! Janine and I were up and down the mountain, chini and juu, to meet with staff of local schools in line to receive computers donated by IBM. After the typical distractions of morning including reporti, attempts to send email, greetings...
First Glimpses
After our amazing wildlife Safari, we explored a different part of Tanzania, the city!!! Arusha is chaotic, dynamic, under construction and just busy, busy, busy. When we arrived into town it was market time and the main street was a sea of people, trucks, carts, wheelbarrows, produce...