Thanks to a grant from TD Meloche-Monnex, Bishop's University students Lucie Imbeau and Micah Orr are spending two months with the Kibena Women's Association and the Kibena Youth Fellowship, both affiliated with Highlands Hope of Tanzania.
Archive for 2009
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Prof. Madeleine Buck, co-author of Fundamentals of Canadian Nursing: Concepts, Process, and Practice, 2nd ed., Assistant Director at the McGill School of Nursing, and founder of McGill Nurses for Highlands Hope, recently announced that she would donate her share of royalties from the textbook to the Highland Hopes Nursing Consortium in Tanzania, which works with HIV-AIDS patients in that country.
Highlands Hope Chair Evangelista Kayombo and Coordinator Betty Liduke arrived in Montreal Saturday evening to begin a series of meetings and presentations with Highlands Hope partners in Canada.
Veneranda Sanga, age 17, died in February, a victim of the substandard health care available from local health authorities and institutions in Bulongwa. This Day newspaper in Dar es Salaam has published an account of her death and the corruption and incompetence that contribute
Highlands Hope Chairperson Evangelista Kayombo and Coordinator Betty Liduke will travel to Montreal for two weeks of meetings with partners at McGill University, St. George's School, St. Lambert United Church, and Bishop's University.
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.
