[above: mentoring Team TZ – Jenny, me, Guy] My LAST week of fellowship and work in Tanzania is now OVER! We came back to Moshi to do direct mentoring at the Mawenzi Hospital HIV clinic. Mawenzi is dreadfully representative of the broken health care system in Tanzania. It’s the regional referral hospital for all of …
[above: dude carrying a load of sponge-bed-square-pants mattresses for one of the many motels for migrant miners along the main road in Kahama] Kahama is a dusty dry dude town on the highway to Rwanda and Burundi, between Tinde and Bukombe. Its existence depends on gold mining, and all of its industry is built around …
[above: HIV Care and Treatment Refresher Training participants, trainers and UCSF help-staff (i.e. the team i work with in Tanzania) in Shinyanga, picture taken on 15 August at the Ngoloko Hostel, Catholic Arch Diocese centre; this was a historic Refresher training because all of the direct trainers were Tanzanian and a majority of the training …
Haraka haraka haina baraka. If you hurry hurry, you will not receive blessings. The pace of life in Tanzania, particularly the rural inland region of Shinyanga (where we are working now), is pole pole. It is a remarkable departure from our compulsive, over-scheduled, and micromanaged culture at home in the US. Here, we are less …
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above: kid next to the “door of no return” (which slaves passed through to leave their home forever) at Changuu Island, Zanzibar dhows anchored at Stone Town, Zanzibar twilight over Stone Town aerial of the reef around Unguja island, Zanzibar hallway at Beit-Al-Amaan (“house of peace”) chillin at Beit-al-Amaan’s lush living room Zanzibar. Ahh… hearing …
What am I really here to do? A couple principles to keep in mind while working here: -Our ultimate goal here is to make ourselves unnecessary. -It is not impossible to get things done; it just might take much much much longer than you would ever expect. The first three weeks of my time in …
