Zanzibar assignment, January - February 2016
As usual also this year we spent our vacation in Zanzibar to oversee the following projects:
Finally we were able to distribute the charity goods which have been sent to Zanzibar at the end of 2014.
The Rinaldo Gasparini Maternal and Child Health Clinic in Kendwa received blood pressure cuffs, sterile gauzes, plaster, disposable syringes, needles and bandages. Angela Giacomazzi, the italian senior physician at the hospital was very happy about it.
The district hospital in Kivunge we provided with lots of dressing material, blood pressure cuffs, stretchers, splints, disposable syringes, crutches and glasses. The two volunteer doctors from the english organisation HIPZ, Shuang Wang (UK) and Alex Vogt (GE) reassured the significance of such donations in kind.
In the district of Fukuchani (appr. 20 km south of Nungwi) with the hamlets of Kigongoni, Mvuleni and Fukuchani we started to build 16 dry toilets on seven different sites. According to experience the excavation of the holes turned out to be very labor-intensiv as well as time-consuming due to the coral rock ground. This delayed the further construction work. Thanks to the amazing commitment of Hassani, the site supervisor (he built before on mainland Tanzania toilets for us) and our project manager King Banda the toilets will be completed and handed over to the villagers by the end of March.
Anually, before school begins we go to buy the required exercise books and pens and deliver them personally to each of our sponsored children. The tailoring of the uniforms starts in October and is usually finished by the time we arrive at the end of December.
