Summer 2011 Update: Tanzania

An important value of Grounds for Health is that we never make ourselves indispensable. We actually work towards ending our involvement from the very first day we begin. That means lots of work in making sure that providers are well trained and that there is strong community support in place to ensure the continuation of the program in our absence.

So this is what has been keeping Dr. Annah busy these days. Dr. Annah Kichambati, our Grounds for Health in-country staff person in Tanzania, has been busy doing supportive supervision visits with providers and working with Kanyovu coffee cooperative leadership to make sure that community health promoters continue their mobilization work. She has also been working closely with ICAP (Columbia University’s International Center for AIDS Care and Treatment Programs) as they take on oversight of the cervical pre-cancer screening and treatment program that GFH initiated in Kigoma.

As you read this, she is helping as they train yet a whole new round of providers.  It is thrilling to see the work continue as we step away.

And on we go … across the country to the Kilimanjaro region to start up a new program with Kilicafe.  Stay tuned!  Hopefully we will get some staff/volunteer photos from the top of Kilimanjaro in an E-News soon!