FWI Impact Report April 2024

Fair World International Impact Report for April 2024 .

Tanzania has experienced extremely heavy rains for the duration of this month. The BBC has reported that tragically, 155 people have lost their lives here, primarily due to flooding and land slides.

Our work too has been significantly impacted, particularly in the areas of outdoor construction and the delivery of materials and equipment. And car travel on unsealed mountain roads has been challenging. Nevertheless, we have achieved the following impacts:

1. We delivered all essential equipment and furniture to ensure the newly completed Kwemakame health centre became a fully functioning health asset for the community of 6,900 villagers. We also built a 10,000-liter water tank for the clinic.

2. We connected water to the Sunga health clinic water tank;

3. We delivered a desktop computer to the Mteke health centre in the Pare mountains;

4. We held a Happy Cows, Happy Farmers seminar in Mteke to instruct local farmers on cow welfare. (Two other seminars in nearby villages were cancelled due to heavy rain, but they will hopefully take place towards the end of May.)

5. We installed solar systems in the delivery room and neo-natal ward of the Mnazi health center and in the girls’ dormitory of Magamba secondary school;

6. We built a kitchen at the Sunga health centre where meals will be cooked for patients and staff, including HIV patients (mainly women and children) who come to collect their anti-retro-virals each month;

Sunga Heath Clinic kitchen

7. We constructed four toilets for the estimated 250 vendors at the weekly Sunga food market;

8. We checked their weight and gave out a month’s food nourishment to 107 malnourished children, including five new participants referred to us by the Sunga, Mambo and Tema health centres. We have begun to introduce worm treatment to good effect for some children who have been slow to put on weight.

Malnourishment weight control in Masereka

9. We delivered desktop computers and photocopy/printing machines to the primary and secondary schools in Nkelei village;

10. We replenished essential medical supplies for Mpanga and Tema health centres;

11. We delivered a phototherapy machine to the new Lushoto hospital maternity ward, where approximately 500 babies are born every month. The hospital experiences a significant number of babies with neonatal jaundice. Also, babies born with this condition in the 30+ health centres in the Usambara mountains can now be brought down for treatment.