Afrikka avaa silmät
Art in Tanzanian kautta sairaalassa vapaaehtoisina olleet lääkärit Tiina ja Jouni Hirvioja kertovat kokemuksestaan näin: “Helsingin Sanomien artikkelissa “Tarkoitus oli…
Tegeta HIV AIDS advocacy Event a Great Success!
Medical and Public Health Last week’s HIV event at the Tegeta Friday Market was spectacular. The event was a…
Mawenzi Regional Hospital, Tanzania – supporting many with few resources
Mawenzi Regional Hospital is a busy hospital which attends to over 300 outpatients daily and has around 300 beds in its wards but the number of patients can easily rise to almost 500. In the paediatric ward, sometimes up to four kids sleep in one bed.
Art in Tanzania is organizing donations for Mawenzi hospital in order to support its staff to continue their work supporting the people of the Kilimanjaro region in northern Tanzania.
Sober House and Art Gallery in Zanzibar
When wandering through the alleys and byways of Stone Town, every once in a while you’ll come up to a little square, a little breathing space. It’s at one of these that I am to meet Kasim Nyuni and Saleh, the driving forces behind an upcoming art gallery…
Detroit Sober House is greatly helping drug addicts
Suleiman Mauly was a normal child, who liked playing football and was good in school. In school he felt bored and started to hang out with the “wrong” people and using drugs. After a while he became an addict. He says he ended up hurting himself and others more than he could ever imagine…
Art In Tanzania organizes free HIV testing at Kunduchi public beach
Over 30 people from Kunduchi village in Dar es Salaam are now aware of their HIV status thanks to a free HIV counseling and testing exercise organized by Art In Tanzania last Thursday.
A total of 38 villagers most of them youthful men took the bold step after a team of AIT staff and volunteers conducted a HIV and AIDS sensitization campaign at the beach village..
Stodying use of dry toilets with the help of volunteers
As the world marks the World Toilet Day today, November 19, many families in the world still do not have access to sanitation facilities.
According to UNICEF, 1.1 billion people around the world defecate in the open, contaminating their environments and water sources besides spreading diseases like diarrhea, which kills 2,000 children less than 5 years old every day.
Medical volunteers support Art in Tanzania Health programs
We interviewed Rosie, from the UK, about her experience as she worked on the medical project in Dar es Salaam. Here are her views:
As your project draws to a close, what have you most enjoyed about medical volunteering?
“I like it because it differs from place to place, and it’s also good to see how a hospital is run here compared to the system in the UK…