Our Purpose

Our purpose is to serve and minister in the communities of Dar es Salaam, Dodoma and primarily Zanzibar (Unguja Island). It is our desire to empower the local church and the community by assisting our Tanzanian Partners in addressing the extreme poverty in these regions. We accomplish this through humanitarian means such as medical missions, community health development, vital construction projects, and through our child sponsorship program in which we corporately provide for the nutritional, educational, emotional and spiritual needs of 103 children affected by HIV/AIDS.

Saturday, August 9, 2008

DRIVE TO DODOMA/CLINIC DAY 2(wednesday)

Marsha and Jocelyn counting pills and reading prescriptions-all day.
Melanie, Suzanne, and DougR-he's awake!(:
Suzanne was unpacking some supplies out of one of the boxes
The clinic team was very patient-some of them didn't leave that little room all day!
The lollipops are very important in the clinic. They keep everybody happy =D
Nimfa waving hello!
I think these were a few patients at the clinic waiting to be helped.

Good day, readers. Today was pretty uneventful for the team doing Vacation Bible School(I relly like this color blue!). We took the ferry to Dar Es Salaam, then we sat on the bus for SIX HOURS(not so fun!), going to Dodoma. Once we got there, we were pretty tired, despite our inactivity on the bus[: , so we had dinner, and went off to bed.

On the other hand, the team at the clinic had a very busy day! Filling out prescriptions one after the other and passing out medication round the clock. It was nonstop work-a-palooza for Doug M, Melanie, Nimfa, Jocelyn, and Suzanne(Marsha came with us this time). But in the end, their hard work helped hundreds of people and is greatly appreciated(:

Tomorrow my team will visit 103 AIDS orphans(that means that one or both parents died of AIDS) at Changombe Orphanage.

The clinic team will begin their third full day of medical clinic at Kivunge Cottage Hospital which is located in the poorest community in Unguja Island, Zanzibar.

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