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WHAT AN INITIATION – UNRIVALLED!

What a revelation our experience here in Tanzania is proving to be, and especially living amongst the community even for these two weeks here in Kilema, following our memorable safari, before I’m off for a few days to Zanzibar! So different from my remarkable years of work experience across a...

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2012 Tulewasili Tanzania! We Have arrived!

It has been the fullest of days since leaving Canada on December 30 for our latest visit to Tanzania and we are aware of how tardy this first announcement comes! Samehani! Mary Todd of Bristol, David Crossley and daughter Caroline are accompanying Eva and me to Kilema Hospital for a...

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Godfrey and Sasha: 4 Years Later

John, Sasha and Godfrey A happy walk home Returning now to Kilema four years after our first arrival is to return to family and community. So much wonderful news to catch up on: new parents and grandparents amongst our colleagues here; orphans blossoming into healthy adolescents and former AIDS patients...

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Health Caravan in Moshi: A New Face on the Team

By: Sasha Fraser Last week I volunteered in a health caravan near Moshi, Tanzania. It was organized by Pamoja Tunaweza (Together we can) , a non governmental organization (NGO) started by two doctors from Queens university. The goal of the caravan was to provide free health care to people in...

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Kilema 2011: And Then What Happened

Most of you will know that I am writing this from Victoria, home now for two weeks but still reflecting on our final busy week and hoping to remember what was an eventful, satisfying, moving and often funny experience in blog form. A bit of a hole in the visual...

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Thoughts from Audrey

Well, we’re home now and our traveling family has fractured not only through the neighbourhood, but even in our big home. The four of us were hardly 10 feet apart most of the last month, and I am so grateful for that experience. I’ve learned and experienced so much. I’ve...

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A Day in the LIfe

These last two weeks have been a busy time with school and village visits, each day planned the day before with at least a few options in the hopes that one or more work out. In most cases the day unfolds, often with serendipity, and to our own surprise we...

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Status Update: Physical and Otherwise

Our party of six is all well now though Rob from Holland was down hard with illness after discovering he had consumed a non-veg mmembe or mango. White wriggling proteins and other microbiology had us starting Cipro before long( thanks for the supply Dr. Freigang!)with favorable results. Rob was up...

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Karibu Kilema

Greetings to everyone in Canada! You sure seem far away especially after our epic three day journey here complete with an unexpected stopover in Nairobi after our connection left early, yes early.Our reduced fare price seemed less a good deal and we were introduced to considerable bureaucracy early in the...

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Loaded up and ready to fly

Wow.. school bags and supplies, shoes, white shirts and party dresses, baby joggers, fleece blankets galore! Donations, both material and financial have been exceptional. This doesn’t happen without a lot of help from a lot of generous people and organizations. Many thanks to all, including the many who came right...

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