It’s been a busy year for FRRTL. The team have enrolled sixteen elderly people in the village in the National Community Health Insurance Fund. This fund is a national initiative which aims to increase access to affordable health care. The team have also ensured that the five remaining beneficiaries on […]
Yearly Archives: 2025
Salum, Acting Centre Manager, was born in Kindwitwi and has been associated with FRRTL and its predecessor organizations for over twenty years. Originally, he trained as a shoe maker and has attended several courses in prevention of disability. He is married with six children. He is now responsible for the […]
Meet Salum and Tatu, employees of FRRTL – our partner ...
Since our last newsletter, we are pleased to report that the local building contractors have completed the renovation work on five FRRTL buildings. Each building also now has a new latrine and washroom. Our five beneficiaries are very happy with their much improved, newly renovated homes.
House renovations update
Over the years the trustees have been entrusted with various documents relating to Kindwitwi and Father Robin Lamburn. This year Sarah collected some of Father Robin’s diaries, his visitor books and other papers, from our former trustee, Nick Bowley. Bishop Trevor Huddleston and Leader Sterling, Tanzanian Minister for Health, visited […]
Father Robin Lamburn Archive
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We are very lucky to have Mr. Uhuru Mplaza as chair of the Foundation for Rapid relief of TB and Leprosy (FRRTL), our partner organization in Tanzania. Uhuru has been chair of FRRTL for nearly three years now, but his association with Kindwitwi goes back much further than that as […]
Meet Uhuru Mplaza, Chair of FRRTL – our partner organization ...
The long rainy season is over and work is progressing well with the renovation of five buildings and the building of five new pit latrines for the most vulnerable villagers affected by leprosy. It is hoped that the work can be completed before the […]
House Renovations further update
Our Trustee Jenny Cosgrave is stepping down from the Board of Trustees after 15 years. Jenny has managed to join us at most of our meetings, either virtually or in person, despite being based in Mexico and, more recently, The Netherlands. She first visited Kindwitwi when she was the CAFOD […]
News from the Trustees – Jenny Cosgrave
The World Health Organisation, WHO, has declared that it wants to have moved from ‘eradicating leprosy as a public health problem’ to ‘elimination of leprosy disease’. The aim is to have zero disease, zero stigma and zero disability by 2030. In 2023, 1454 new cases of Leprosy were detected in […]
Leprosy case finding trip
The house renovation programme is going well. The Board of FRRTL, our beneficiary organization in Kindwitwi, met and appointed a local builder to commence work on the programme. One of our beneficiaries wished to remain living in a traditionally built house. He is pictured here at the start of the […]