A note from Sylvie Lambert, a Canadian nurse working with Highlands Hope of Tanzania, about Christmas with the Kibena Women's Association and the orphans that they support in Njombe.
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Muhingo Rweyemamu is the editor of the weekly investigative newspaper RAI in Dar es Salaam. He has reported extensively on the HIV situation in Iringa, Njombe and Makete. This piece appeared last week in his newspaper. It was translated by Vicky Ntetema of the BBC Africa Service.
In what is becoming an annual gathering, Highlands Hope of Tanzania and the Kibena Women's Association held a Boxing Day celebration for orphans, many of them the victims of HIV in their families, in the town of Njmobe.
PIUMA leader Wema Sanga and senior advisor Muhingo Rweyemamu returned to Tanzania after a very successful round of meetings with Austrian supporters and partners. Extensive coverage is available at a new blog-site, elisabethzenz.blogspot.com
More than 1,800 men and women tested in PIUMA's village-based HIV testing drive since mid-
Terry’s Tanzania
In January 2006, Montreal’s famed Gazette cartoonist Terry Mosher (Aislin) traveled to the Southern Highlands of the East African nation of Tanzania to visit Highlands Hope.
He captured the beauty, the heartbreak and the courageous determination of Highlands Hope activists like nurse Betty Liduke, community-organizer Jackson Mbogela, and the men, women and children who make the Makete and Njombe Districts of Tanzania a very special place.
