Monday January 16th, 2012

Once again we were on the road with Rotarians from the Kilema Kati club visiting potential project locations and following up on previous work in the community.  Last year’s team visited a number of dispensaries and clinics and with help from our partner International Medical Equipment Coalition (IMEC) identified sites that needed updated equipment.

Hello All,

Today was a fantastic day. It was very hot out. We started the day by walking to the Kilema Catholic Church. We went to the 10:00 a.m. Children’s Mass. There was about  750 plus kids there in their Sunday best.It was a great mass with them all singing and the children were all curious about us also. After Church we got to shake lots the kids hands.

Friday

Things got really moving today as we  visited 5 medical centres in Old Moshi.  Old Moshi is a rural area on the outskirts of the Moshi Town. The terrain is extremely hilly with steep valleys. These clinics are smaller and varied greatly from a day clinic with 2 beds and maternal care to a unused 26 bed rural hospital. Each clinic serve as the entry level health care facility for the local community.