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Last year, with the support of the Simon Cumbers Media Fund, journalist Eleanor Brennan travelled to Tanzania to find out more about leprosy, its social stigma and impacts for a newstalk radio in Ireland. Here are the reflections of her visit: Leprosy: the Last Relic of the Old World In […]

The stigma of leprosy – reflections of a visitor to Kindwitwi

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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            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

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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

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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

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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 […]

House renovations in Kindwitwi

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Earlier this year Tatu, who manages the accounts, and Salum, the acting manager, completed a computer skills training course to help them in their roles and make for smoother running of our partner organization, the Foundation for Rapid Relief of TB and Leprosy (FRRTL).  

Computer Skills for FRRTL Staff

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The St Lazarus Trust has generously supported RLT over many years. We are pleased to announce St Lazarus have awarded RLT a further grant to help improve the accommodation of the villagers on full care support and to provide health insurance. Pictured is one of the villagers affected by leprosy […]

St Lazarus Trust Grant

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Kindwitwi Kindergarten
In November Geoff O’Donoghue (our chair) and his wife Jenny visited Kindwitwi. Long term supporters will remember Geoff and Jenny spent three years in Kindwitwi as VSO volunteers back in the early 1990’s. During their trip this year Geoff and Jenny supported FRRTL with staff development, reviewed the students and […]

Trustee Visit October 2024

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Funding the education of young people who are the children and grandchildren of leprosy patients,or who are from very poor families, has been an important way that the Rufiji Leprosy Trust has sought to address some of the many barriers that people from Kindwitwi can often face.  As we know, […]

Education Sponsorship

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Rufiji Leprosy Trust has benefitted from many legacies over the years – which have really changed the lives of people in Kindwitwi. We have used legacy income to support leprosy relief work, development of new needs for the village and within our daily support of the village. Thank you so […]

Legacies for Rufiji Leprosy Trust

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Children at Kindwitwi - October 2022
Between 6 and 15 October 2022, Geoff O’Donoghue (Co-Chair of RLT) and Jennifer Cosgrave (RLT Trustee) travelled to Kindwitwi to spend some long-overdue time with the team on the ground and re-connect with the community that your donations support. The impact of the pandemic has meant that the trustees have […]

Trustee visit to Kindwitwi – October 2022

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As part of our new series, Stories from Kindwitwi, the trustees from RLT are collating the varied and fascinating experiences, anecdotes and stories that our global community has had in Kindwitwi.  To capture these stories, our trustees are inviting people from the RLT community to have a virtual coffee with […]

Stories from Kindwitwi – Nick Bowley- June 2022

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We are sorry to bring you the news that Bob Laverton MBE, who was a trustee of RLT for more than 30 years, passed away at the age of 100 earlier this month.  Amongst his many accomplishments, Bob spent forty-two years with Lloyds Bank plc, of which 22 were in […]

News from the Trustees – Bob Laverton – June 2022

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For this instalment of the Newsletter, we asked the team in Kindwitwi to share with us the story of the Ward, which is one of the most important projects that your donations continue to support.  In their own words, this is what the team told us! Kindwitwi Leprosy Ward was […]

Leprosy News from Kindwitwi – June 2022

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Bob Laverton
Many of you will know or remember G.W.W. Laverton. Bob is one of the founding members of the Rufiji Leprosy Trust and was awarded an MBE in 2004 for his services to RLT in Tanzania.  His dedication to the people of Kindwitwi has always been unwavering.  We are happy to […]

G.W.W. Laverton’s 100th Birthday

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We have been going through our archives and came across a newsletter from Father Robin Lamburn in 1979 he wrote: ‘In six months’ time we hope to establish a really good Day Care Centre for the children who are under school age. Little babies are usually well cared for by […]

News from the Trustees- April 2021

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Dr William Mapuga
Leprosy detection work continues, and five new Leprosy diagnoses have been made since our last newsletter. Community sensitisation work continues in schools and villages. The National TB and Leprosy Programme has held its annual meeting and resolved to try and eliminate Leprosy as a Public Health problem from all regions […]

Leprosy News- April 2020

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Your support means that the Rufiji Leprosy Trust can provide young people to access educational opportunities that they might not otherwise have. In our last newsletter we shared with you how RLT supports young people to go to University but did you know that for many years RLT has supported […]

Education in Kindwitwi

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