Cataloguing the Rufiji Leprosy Trust archive continues. This is Issue 130 of our Newsletter. Our very first Newsletter was sent out in November 1989 and was written by Robin Pim and Teresa Sutton who were the volunteers in Kindwitwi at the time. That year, as a result of the innovative outreach programme, 82 new cases of leprosy were detected in the region. The team faced the challenge of the Landrover having been written off, and in the meantime were looking at delivering some outreach sessions by boat. HIV was starting to be recognised as a problem and the volunteers had obtained funding for an AIDS education programme. (The HIV virus had only been officially named in 1986). There was the perennial challenge of providing a regular water supply to the village and a handicraft project was being set up to sell baskets and mats made by the villagers.
