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A Report by Marian & Doug Williamson

Saturday, May 8th, 2010

BTT Members who stayed at Usagara in early 2010

Our second visit to Tanzania.  This time we arrived just before the rains and yet everything was as lush and green as we remembered from our last visit.  The gardens at Usagara House are a delight - full of colour and wonderful shrubs and flowers.  We saw Kilimanjaro from the garden in the moonlight and we saw stars as never before.  North Uru is truly a beautiful place to relax and enjoy.

Our visit was part holiday, part work in Kisarika School and part visits to some of the other projects supported by BTT.  (more…)

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Posted in Issue 21 May 2010, Kisarika Classrooms for Forms 5 & 6, Nuru Orphanage - Ongoma, Rononi Dispensary Upgrade | 1 Comment »

The Mother and Child Health (MCH) Project - April 09

Tuesday, April 28th, 2009

The MCH Project is supported by the Big Lottery Fund (BLF) and is operated by UNCODET in partnership with BTT and Skillshare International (SKI) and was due to finish on 30th June this year. 

Whilst the project has been outstandingly successful, unavoidable staff changes resulted in programme delays which threatened the planned exit strategy.  BLF, exceptionally, overturned their normal “use it or lose it” philosophy and approved an application to allow us to use the under spent funds to extend the project to the end of December.  (An earlier application for a new BLF supported project had been unsuccessful.) (more…)

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Posted in Community Health Programmes, Issue 19 April 2009 | 1 Comment »