Archive for 2008

Find out what has been happening with Highlands Hope Umbrella
and all of our partners

PIUMA hires new staff

PIUMA, the HIV-AIDS patients' advocacy group in Makete District, has hired a new Coordinator, Clinical Officer and VCT-Home Based Care Nurse.

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Next phase in Tanzanian-Canadian partnership begins

A press release from Canadian Friends of Highlands Hope and McGill Nurses for Highlands Hope as they move into the second phase of the development of their project to support the networking and professional training of nurses working in hospitals and HIV-AIDS clinics in Africa through Highlands Hope of Tanzania.

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Aislin

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.

Take a look at Terry’s scrapbook