Royal Orr of Canadian Friends of Highlands Hope updates on testing in villages, peer educator manuals created for elementary schools, new reference guides for home based care workers and enhanced financial accountability.
Archive for 2011
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McGill School of Nursing student Vesna Papuga and Highlands Hope Umbrella Coordinator and McGill Nurse Instructor Betty Liduke launched consultations with the local community on the new Youth Peer Health Educator effort in Njombe.
McGill MSc (Nursing) student Vesna Papuga travels to Njombe for a three month work-study term that will continue work begun last year on awareness of HIV among primary school students in Njombe.
Students from the School of Education and the Refugee Sponsorship Committee of Bishop's University (Sherbrooke, Canada), raised hundreds of dollars for KWA's work with orphans in Njombe.
A network of community-based and volunteer groups in Njombe have come together to form Highlands Hope Umbrella.
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.
