It was in July 2014 when Highlands Hope Umbrella and McGill University Ingram school of Nursing started to implement the extension of Youth Peer Health Education with a target of reaching 50 more primary schools in Njombe Tanzania.
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YPHE trainer Seth Mbuna prepared this account of the recent training event in Makete District in the Kipengere Mountains, in one of the more remote areas of Njombe Region.
Ten regional academic achievement awards are given to Highlands Hope Umbrella's Youth Peer Health Educator team, including the special award to Sarafina as youth ambassador from Njombe, as a way to encourage all stakeholders in YPHE program to keep on with their efforts.
Highlands Hope Umbrella's team of trainers, when they were in Makete they came up with a voice that "Yphe program is highly needed in Makete". Kelvin Mwinuka was one of the YPHE trainers who stayed all days in Makete and this is his story:
Highlands Hope Umbrella is still extending the YPHE program across Njombe region borders and this is now one of the stories from an amazing experience in Makete District.
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.
