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Tanzania Village Projects

August 2009

Team members who are traveling on the August 09 trip are:

Malaria Research: Cooperative effort with Team Rafiki, the New York State Department of Health, and the Tanzanian Ministry of Heath to performs hands on testing of children in the village to determine malaria prevalence and drug susceptibility as the first step in securing assistance to fight this deadly disease.

Mill: This is a project for Kisele village men. TR purchased a mill and associated legs and generator to mill corn and cassava as an income generating project. TR will educate men on use and repair of mill, assist with basic process, then turn the operation over to men at team’s departure. There are only 2 milling machines in the area, currently they are operating 24/7, so this has good potential. Villagers now need to pay bus fare to reach a town or the other village about 7 miles away to mill their corn and cassava.

Medical Clinic: Daily medical care and treatment to villagers provided by medically trained Team Rafiki members. We expect to serve the needs of more than 1000 people on this trip.

Health Fair:  Full day educational workshops held for the villagers. Topics include:

Bathroom construction at Tumaine: 2 for boys, 2 for girls. This school’s current facility is very dilapidated and unsanitary, mud floor teeming with bacteria and parasites.

Olympics Day: Two sessions, one at Tumaine, one at Kizuga schools. Goals are teaching teamwork, dehydration lesson, skill development, and just having fun with the children.

Educational Development programs for school children: We have several projects geared to develop history, geography, art, math, science, and music skills among the children.

Deliver medical supplies to Dar es Salaam Hospital and to local village hospital:  These facilities treat hundreds of people a day, yet their resources are scant. We will provide donated medical equipment and basic supplies

Feminine Pad Project:  Continue this self sustaining project to Kitonga, Tumaine and Kizuga schools. We will seek assistance from village women who participated in this Nov 2008 project, with the women passing their knowledge to the school aged girls.

 St Francis Hospital maternity ward opening:  Paint, clean, provide equipment and supplies such as medical needs, bed linens, weighing scales, etc to open this maternity ward that has remained only a shell of building due to lack of financial support to open and operate. TR and ARF partnered to fund and install the deep drilled well needed to make this project feasible.

 Home Health visits:  TR will work side by side with JUMUWAKO, a nonprofit organization from Mkuranga, to assist with home health care visits, tending to those to ill and/or financially unable to travel for medical care. TR will prepare packets of tea, soap, biscuits, sugar, corn meal, etc to distribute to those we visit.

   Continuing to provide electricity where it is most needed, we will install 2 additional panels to supplement the panels installed in Nov 2008.

   We will provide this dental preventive treatment for 900 children. This project has been developed with the guidance of a NYS dentist.

 Bicycle distribution:  Assist the villagers with establishing an income generating business of renting bikes to those in need of transportation and unable to afford bus fare. Bikes will also be used to assist in delivery of home health care.