Hey Everyone,
We are SIHA’s
International Travel Team reporting to you live from Mlandizi, Tanzania. SIHA
is a student-run University of Alberta-based health program organization
situated in the non-governmental field of public health. The 2016 team decided
to start this blog to better inform potential SIHA applicants, future travel team members, and
sponsors about the work we really do here.
We are all excited to have arrived
in Tanzania and have spent the first week settling in: getting the hang of the
local market, embracing bucket showers, and researching projects. Our team this
year consists of our lovely project manager (Allie), our senior advisor
(Jacqueline), two community consultants (Gladness and Charles - without whom we
would be lost), in-country representative (Melkiory), as well as six travel
team members: Moni, Jonas, Diana, Maria, Morg. A, and Morg. S. Our projects
this summer are related to maternal health, malaria prevention, water access, and
support of local organizations involved in health promotion. As SIHA as an
organization is currently undergoing a transition from resource-based projects
towards capacity building, our role this summer is to reassess our current
projects so they better align with SIHA’s updated vision and mission.
This upcoming week we will be
meeting with community members from Kikongo and Mwanabwito (the villages we
work in) to inform the next steps to take with our projects. Work aside, our
whole team travelled to Bagamoyo on Sunday and spent the day drinking coconuts,
playing sports, and relaxing on the beach. Yes, it’s not all work over here! We
have all fully adopted the concept of ‘Africa time’ but we will try and send
out an update once a week.
Asante Sana (Thank you very much!)
 |
| (Charles and Diana are missing!) |
No comments:
Post a Comment