An Ambulance in Africa
It took over a year to move a decommissioned ambulance from Des Moines to the Kilimanjaro region of Tanzania. After sitting in customs for almost two months, we were able to free the vehicle and put it to immediate use transporting critically ill people to the hospitals in Moshi and Arusha, responding to accident victims, […]
A Chain of Goodness
This winter the good people of Mercy Hospital in Des Moines decommissioned an ambulance. A good friend managed to secure that ambulance for the Kilimanjaro Region of Tanzania. The good people at St. Mary Parish in Sioux Falls donated to ship the ambulance to Dar es Salaam. It will take a good three months to […]
Generators Shipped
Last week, twenty-two Peppermint Energy solar generators, the 2000 watt Forty2 models, began their journey from Sioux Falls to Dar es Salaam. When they reach the port in Tanzania’s capital city, they will be picked up and taken to the Diocese of Same in the Kilimanjaro Region. Each generator can provide a continual supply of […]
Africa Matters
From the time I was ten years old until I was 25, the news seemed dominated by one word: Vietnam. I had a number of teachers in my middle school years that strongly encouraged watching the evening news, a custom that today seems quaint and nostalgic. (I watched Walter Cronkite on the CBS Evening News.) […]