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Dear Friends, Once upon a time I had thoughts of writing a newsletter telling about Christmas and the New Year in Tanzania. Now those events are history and I’m more interested in the present and future. Right now, it is about 90’ F in our office as the sun has come down south and is streaming through 3 big louver windows that face south. I’ll be happy when it starts moving north again and the sun is overhead. The evenings are longer now as it gets dark about 7:30 p.m. and su

Dear Friends, I am writing to you on a cloudy Saturday afternoon, 12 May 2012. My last letter was 21 April. That was not so long ago, but a number of things have happened since my last letter and I want to write them before I forget what happened. I only have 5 weeks and 2 days left before I begin my long journey home and lots can happen before that. Last time I wrote I mentioned that we had started looking for blood donors and that we had given one blood transfusion in an em

Dear Friends, I reckon some of the things that I find exciting in my life and in the lives of the folks around me might not strike most people as something to celebrate. Nevertheless I want to share with all of you two major events that are taking place here at Nkololo and that will affect our lives and especially the daily operation of our Songambele Health Center and future Songambele Hospital. The first big change in Nkololo town and in St. Peter’s Parish is that we have