Edmund Munubi, Manager of the TANWAT Hospital in Njombe, visited Canadian partners from June 1 - 13, sponsored by the Canadian Friends of Highlands Hope Umbre
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Peer Health Educators present in two pilot school in Mlevela and Nyambanitu have created new awareness and sparked interest in learning, testing, and caring about HIV-AIDS,
George Sanga has been a volunteer leader with KYOFI and with the Highlands Hope Umbrella for several years and now joins the group as a consultant to extend our peer health educator network into other primary schools in the Njombe area.
The Highlands Hope Umbrella youth organization KYOFI has just completed recording its first CD and tape for release in
McGill MSc(Nursing) student Vesna Papuga has prepared training resources for student peer health educators and is providing training with Highlands Hope Umbrella coordinator Betty Liduke and volunteers from CHAKUNIMU, the HIV-AIDS awareness and care organization.
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.
