As Dr. Anna Nyaki says,”The village tells you everything you need to know about how people really live.” It was Anna Nyaki who referred Maximilian (above) for help with schooling costs given his academic potential and his mother’s illness. It was ideal for us to...
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Hymns for Health
Voices rise up in harmony as the Sisters and hospital staff make their way down towards morning hymns, the official start of the day at the Kilema Hospital. We were wishing we could incorporate the spirit of this “team huddle” at the...
Internet …to be or not to be?
Joke: Text to student in Arusha……….”Do you have Wifi there at your school?” Text reply: “No mama, I am single.” Every year people in Canada ask me why I am not on Facebook with the KSF Tuition Project and every year when I arrive here I remember...
“Who’s Got the Leg?” Deo !
A Prosthetic Leg for Deo Kundi At Central Middle School, we (Solana, Lockie and Lauren) held a fundraiser to help buy Deo Kundi a prosthetic leg. He has been without a leg for 3 years. To raise the money, the three of us decided to hold a...
Savouring Sembeti : A Culinary Safari and Other Adventures
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...
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...