PIUMA spirit strong in Ilolo and Utanziwa; a report from Canadian Friends of Highlands Hope summer intern, Gabe Maldoff. Jul
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PIUMA honoured at TANGO meeting in Mbeya: set to represent Makete in district committee and Iringa on TVT Jul
Sasa wanachama wa PIUMA wameamua kuanzisha timu ya mpira wa miguu ili kupima afya zao. Timu hii imeshaanza mazoezi taraya kwa ajili ya kujipima afya na wanataka kuanza kushindana na mashirika mengine ya watu wanaoishi na VVU.
The Frankfurter Rundschau newspaper published a major investigative piece on corruption in the home Lutheran diocese of PIUMA. The Lutheran church runs most local health services in the area and is charged with theft and fraud in recent years.
As PIUMA's Hima-VCT verges on re-opening this week, Clinical Officer, Juma Nzige, has written this assessment of members' health statuses after more than three months without an operational Voluntary Counselling and Treatment center.
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.
