Care for Africa Online Journal

Safe clean water has been provide to 3600 people in the Surubu Community, Tarime by our team.

The women and children would walk up to 8 kms twice a day to collect water for their families. The water would always be  infected with ecoli causing diarrhoea related diseases and dehydration. Often the water would also be infected with typhoid and choera. Unclean water is the major cause of illness and death in the communities of Taime.

The girls of Surubu no longer have to miss hours from valuable schooling, the mothers can spend more time at home with their children, as well as time developing business to help their families.

SAFE CLEAN WATER WILL ALWAYS FLOW FOR THE PEOPLE OF SURUBU.

WELL DONE, WE HAVE CHANGED THE LIVES OF 3600 PEOPLE IN AFRICA.

Harry, Nick & Jack, the three 18 year olds have just arrived in Tarime.

Today Dr Winani showed them around the hospital.

Tomorrow Abdullah will take the boys to Surubu. They will run an education program to the school children about using safe clean water out of the water well CfA intalled last year. The boys will teach the school children about water borne diseases, which are the major cause of morbidity & mortality in Tanzania.

The boys are also going to peg out a netball court at the school. A netball court will be built when the container arrives with the equipment in it. The girls want to learn sport, so we are going to teach them netball.

Jack is going to organise to do a mural on the school. He will have 8 students from the Surubu school to help him. He will start his mural once the containers arrive with the paints. Jack is organised to do murals on 8 outlying poor schools in Tarime.

Imagine the difference these kids will make to the impoverished schools & students in Tarime.

Two shipping containers laden with much needed educational & medical equipment are on their way to Tarime. The Youngtown Primary School container co-ordinated by Wendy Dalton, & the Launceston Church Grammar School container co-ordinated by Allison Bassano will bring renewed hope to the people, especially the children & orphans of Tarime.

Alison Smith and her amazing team at Sacred Heart Primary school have worked tirelessly to collect much needed educational aids for the impoverished community schools in Tarime.

The Tasmanian families, children, schools and community members have given generously to the container project.

           THE PETER HEWITT CARE FOR AFRICA FOUNDATION  

              COCKTAIL PARTY & AUCTION

Where:    THE BOATHOUSE

When:    SATURDAY,  22 OCTOBER 2010

                  7 PM – 10 PM

 Dress:   COCKTAIL 

Cost:          $85.00              

Why:         TO BUILD OUR MUCH NEEDED EDUCATION RESOURCE CENTRE IN TARIME TANZANIA

Party with us at this great venue –  organise a group

Bring your friends to this annual CfA event!

Drink in the view, feel charged by  that special Care for Africa atmosphere!  This fantastic fundraiser  will include an amazing auction, free drinks, canapes and live entertainment.  

Don’t miss this one – book now….

Methods of Payment:

Online:                        Westpac

                                        The Peter Hewitt Care for Africa Foundation

                                        BSB No.   037608

                                        A/C No.   387249

                                       email receipt details to jane @creesenortheast.com.au

or

Cheque payable to The Peter Hewitt Care for Africa Foundation and posted to CFA PO Box 3072, Launceston 7250

or

Pay and Collect your tickets at 41 Degrees, Arthur St East Launceston

RSVP:  6 November 2010

All donations are Tax Deductable

diana @careforafrica.org.au

CareforAfrica is holding a Cocktail Party on Saturday 1st May at The Boat House, Launceston. The money raised will be used to build our much needed Resource Centre.

The Resource Centre will be built in the Tarime Township. We have 2 shipping containers laden with books, puzzles, posters and many other educational aids, which have been generously donated by  many school children, families, teachers and people of our local Launceston Community, to fill the Centre. The teachers from Tarime, especially in the outlying communities, will be able to borrow these invaluable aids to take to their deprived schools to assist with their teaching. When we visit the schools in the outlying communities of  Tarime, we see many schools with absolutely no books and educational aids. The maths classes are taught by teachers using stones. We see many children, especially the orphans, with nothing to write in or with. The safe arrival of our containers will mean pens, pencils, exercise books and much needed goods for these beautiful children who long for a better opportunity in life.

Please come and show your support for the needy people of Tarime. We all know that education is the way to escape poverty.

Please call for tickets:

Sonia Clifford: 0407271826,

Angela Knight:  0409717706

Diana Morrison: 0408994883

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Allison Bassano with one of her students, Marguretta. Marguretta is a 13 year old girl that was studying for her end of year exams, when her parrafin lamp ignited causing extensive burns to her torso, L) arm, leg and lateral neck.

Marguretta was admitted to hospital and treated with profolactic antibiotics and diclofenac for pain relief. By the time we saw Marguretta, her burns were dry and starting to contract. We dressed her wounds with home made vaseline gauze dressings to soften the scabs for a series of days until they were ready for debridement.  Dr Joe and Dr Lisa debrided the wounds which allowed for good wound healing and lessened occurance of contractures. Dr Joe dressed Marguretta’s burns with the vaseline dressings until they healed.

We provided a high protein diet to Marguretta, consisting mainly of degar (tiny fish), milk and eggs. Prior to our arrival she had only been eating one bananna  a day.

Marguretta spent 3 weeks in the Tarime Goodwill Hospital under our care. She went home with a hat and clothing from our container to protect her fragile skin African. Dr Joe bought a specially designed elasticised top to prevent contractures from Ausralia, which Marguretta went home with.

The knitting project from Tasmania to Tanzania has been hugely successful, cosequently being most welcomed and needed by the impoverished childre of Tarime.

We see the major water supply for the Surubu community is now non existant. The girls and women walk twice a day, a minimum of 5kms to the Mara River to collect the house hold water in 20L containers which the girls carry on their heads. The girls tend to miss a great dealt of schooling due to the need to carry water.  Diana

I wrote an epilogue in my Daily Diary while flying home from Tanzania. Here it is…

I’m halfway home, Leaving the unique culture of Africa, Heading to the Western multi-culture of Australia.

Sitting in a Bangkok lounge, Eating Pizza and drinking Chianti, Asians are eating Pasties and drinking Frappe’.

I stop and observe,The myriad nature of Human Identities, Skin color, dress, language and Religions.

I start to reflect upon, How our Identifying Culture is so often used, To separate, dominate and to justify abuse.

I listened on the plane, To a Christian Evangelist who preached his Brief, To build Churches in Africa and spread his Belief.

Then to an unassuming, Elderly woman in Muslim headdress, Wanting just to be accepted as she is, no less.

I’d come to Africa, With thoughts of only what I could give, I had no intention of changing the way they live.

What I discovered was, That in giving without judgement or expectation, We open the door to a deeper connection.

We create a path for, Two-way flow of love and appreciation, A shared culture without any Identity!