Kathryn Hansen and Ariane Desmarais-Michaud are students from Bishop's University looking at the support given to vulnerable children in public schools in Njombe. They're working under the supervision of the Kibena Women's Association and in collaboration with the Kibena Youth organization.
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A quick update from Bishop's University students Ariane Desmarais-Michaud and Kathryn Hansen on their research effort in partnership with the Kibena Women's Association and KYOFI, both Highlands Hope affiliated community organizations.
Kathryn Hansen and Ariane Desmarais-Michaud from Bishop's University in Sherbrooke, Québec, Canada partner with the Kibena Women's Association and Kibena Youth to study the situation of orphans in Njombe.
Aspen Gagné from Montreal will be traveling to Njombe next week to work with Betty Liduke at the Care and Treatment Centre at Tanwat Company Hospital.
Dr. Zin Zin Winkoko, newly arrived from Burma via graduate studies at Mahidol University in Bangkok, visits Njombe on her way to 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.
