Shoulder to Shoulder is supporting Dignity for Daughters, a pilot program to begin in January at the Pommern Secondary School in Iringa. This pilot program will provide reproductive health education and reusable menstrual kits for 270 girls, both donated and sewn locally. From this pilot program, Dignity for Daughters hopes to grow in scope to include other schools in […]
CONTINUE READING →Family of Christ Lutheran Church in Lakeville, MN is sponsoring the three year tuition of Hance Kikoti to complete clinical officer training at the Ilula School of Clinical Medicine. Hance is the son of pastor Phillip Kikoti, the Ilula Hospital chaplain and part of Ilula’s Palliative Care Team. Hance grew up in the local area […]
CONTINUE READING →Shoulder to Shoulder funded the renovation of the library at Ilula Nursing School. The library is now housed in a separate building adjacent to the education building. The library previously was located in the classroom-block of the Education building but was moved to allow expansion of class room facilities. The library is used by nursing […]
CONTINUE READING →Shoulder to Shoulder provided USD $19,000 to purchase additional land for hospital campus expansion. The plot is just outside the main hospital gate and will be the site of construction of the new Reproductive and Children’s Health (RCH) Clinic. Moving the existing RCH to outside the hospital gate will improve patient access to the clinic […]
CONTINUE READING →Petro Lusassi completed his 4th and final year of psychiatry training in July 2020 at Sebastian Kolowa Memorial University in Tanga, TZ. He will then be assigned to a 1 year internship, after which he plans to return to Ilula to begin his psychiatry practice. This includes prescribing rights for medications. Originally from Ihimbo, Petro […]
CONTINUE READING →This holiday season, give a gift that will support village dispensaries in the Iringa region of Tanzania. The Ilula Lutheran Hospital in conjunction with the Iringa Diocese of the Lutheran Church of Tanzania just completed construction of a medical clinic (dispensary) on the campus of The University of Iringa (formerly Tumaini University) in Iringa Tanzania. This medical […]
Shoulder to Shoulder presented a virtual fundraiser in the time of Covid with video from our partners in Tanzania and a program celebrating our work. The fundraiser raised funds to support a new Maternal and Child Health ward at the hospital. Ilula averages 7 babies born every day so this is a critical need for the […]