EQUIPING OF OPERATING THEATRE

The community of Olkokola have built a community hospital but there are no resources.  They have tiled rooms for an operating theatre but have no funds available to equip it.  If we can do this it will enable faster responses to urgent medical care for this entire region.  They also have bed-frames without mattresses and those mattresses that were seen were torn and filthy.  Our water project will also assist this hospital.  We will require about £5000 for the operating theatre equipment and about £5000 for mattresses, paint, medical equipment etc for general medical provision.

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EQUIPMENT FOR OLTRUMET HOSPITAL

Louise spent some time visiting this hospital in one of the local villages.  It is a district hospital for the area.  Doctors operate here but the only monitoring equipment in the theatre is the sort that we use for blood pressure monitoring and oxygen content of blood that we use at the bedside for general hourly checks!  They are also desperate for an X-ray machine.  They have two warm baby cots but they no longer work, these are used on delivery usually.  They have many women attending as they have had children at home and have had complications and its only later that they present with problems and they also have a lot of patients with AIDS/HIV.  They have a separate theatre for amputations and the doctors carrying out the operations are general practitioners.   Thankfully they have not had anyone die through or during surgery.  They tend to carry out minor operations and amputations but I was surprised to find that they do a  lot of hysterectomies.  Thankfully more are trying to get to hospital to give birth but it depends on how far they have to travel without transport.  It would be great to provide them at least with an X-ray machine.  

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REFURBISHMENT OF CLASSROOMS

The classrooms are in urgent need of repair.  Floors are incredibly potholed and crumbling.  Walls are falling apart and there are large holes around all the window frames. Floors need levelling and tiling and walls require plastering and painting.  Some classrooms have no ceilings at all.  This will be costly venture but much needed.  We will keep costs as low as possible as the community will provide the labour and we will provide the materials.  This can be broken down into smaller projects to spread costs also and the floors are the priority​ and then ceilings, some classrooms are without these.  The total cost will be around £25,000 for all renovations but broken down into smaller projects can be funded as donations come in.

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NB  We have just completed refurbishing two classrooms by getting the work done by people in the community.

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KITCHEN FOR SCHOOL

The electric milling machine has its own building now but the school still requires a kitchen to provide food in a more healthy environment.  At present the food is prepared on wood fires in big pots which gets very smoky in the small covered area used and then portioned out using a mug.  Having a kitchen with water and calor gas will enable better and healthier preparation of food in a more hygienic environment.  £3000.

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FREIGHTING OUT OF EQUIPMENT

We have eight desktop computers, 9 laptops, a printer and a projector as well as five boxes of books and tables and chairs for two classrooms to send out to the school. This will help with offering resources for staff and students as they can then access internet and link with other schools and also have some books to improve reading and understanding.  We are looking for discounts from freight companies at present and also have a request out to MOD regarding operating theatre equipment that may also require freighting to Tanzania.  £1000-1500.

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HEALTH SEMINAR TRAINING FOR MASAI IN FOUR ADDITIONAL AREAS NOW - NGORONGORO, ENGARUKA, MWANZA AND KARATU

We have been asked to set up and run some training for the Masai villages in Ngorongoro by a pastoralist group ranging from hygiene, sanitation, early marriage, early childbirth, HIV/AIDs and our doctor (sponsored by the charity) has written the programme and will deliver it for us.  We have already delivered our first programme which was a great success and have now been asked to do four more when funds permit.

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SPECIAL SCHOOL REQUIRED ADDITIONAL SEMINAR FOR PARENTS

This will expand on the seminar we undertook last year.  This allowed parents to come tot the school for three days to learn sign language to be able to converse with their own children.  It brought them great joy as we arranged the initial seminars before the Christmas holidays so that when children returned home they could actually talk with their parents.  It was so well received that the teacher has requested we run some more.  The training cost £1500 to run the last workshops but involved accommodation and food for the parents who came from all over Tanzania as the school is a residential school for deaf and blind children.

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DISPENSARY FOR MASAI AREA

This has been requested by an MP of Tanzania to assist in their afea for people to be able to access medical treatment closer to their homes.  At present they have to travel far to get basic assistance.

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GIRLS SECONDARY SCIENCE SCHOOL

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This has been requested by the government of Tanzania to assist in provision of good science education for girls, who are often not given these opportunities.  Land will be provided to build the school by the government.

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CONSERVATION PROJECTS IN VILLAGES

We will plant an area in villages with trees to try to bring back some biodiversity and nourishment to the soil, provide a haven for birdlife and attract insects, being in some beehives to allow the community to harvest honey as an economic but also healthy provision within the villages.  We will link with helical schools for students to take part in these initiatives and to monitor wildlife and species over time.  Water has now been brought into the villages and this will ensure plants can survive.

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CORRECTIVE SURGERY ON FOUR BOYS WITH SPINAL PROBLEMS

These boys have a hereditary condition where their backs are bending over forcing them to life almost at right angles to their legs.  Spinal surgery will need to be done to save these boys from having broken backs and possibly paralysis.

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