Terry’s Tanzania

Bedside at Ikonda Hospital

In January 2006, Montreal’s famed Gazette cartoonist Terry Mosher (“Aislin�?) traveled to the Southern Highlands of the East African nation of Tanzania to visit Highlands Hope.

Highlands Hope is a small network of health professionals and community activists who are struggling on the frontline of an HIV-AIDS pandemic that is scything through the people of this rural, mountainous region.

The nurses, organizers and ordinary patients involved with Highlands Hope are courageous, committed, and racing against the clock to bring education, testing and anti-retroviral therapies to thousands of individuals who are suffering with the disease. This includes the widows and widowers and the orphans whose already difficult lives have been made almost impossible by HIV.

Highlands Hope demands justice and better treatment for the people of rural Tanzania. In a very short time and with almost no government support, the Highlands Hope HIV clinics have already provided testing and treatment to more than 3,000 patients. And it’s just a beginning.

In the Tanzanian Sketchbook that came out of the trip, Terry Mosher captured the beauty, the heartbreak and the courageous determination of Highlands Hope activists like nurse Betty Liduke, community-organizer Jackson Mbogela, and the men, women and children who make the Makete and Njombe Districts of Tanzania a very special place.

The patient activists of Highlands Hope call on their neighbours to “live in hope�?; please support Highlands Hope with the purchase of a hand-signed print from Terry’s Tanzanian Sketchbook for $150.00 each.

100% of your contribution will go to the work of the clinics and patient activists in the Highlands Hope network.

Drop us a note at highlandshope@hotmail.com (be sure to indicate which prints you want to purchase) and we will mail your prints along with an invoice.

Or write us at the address below indicating which of Aislin’s prints on this page you would like to buy as a gesture of solidarity and support together with your cheque (@ $150 per print) to the order of “Canadian Friends of Highlands Hope�?. Your signed print(s) will be mailed to you thereafter.

Don’t forget to include your return address for mailing purposes.

Thank you.

Canadian Friends of Highlands Hope
c/o Royal Orr,
601 Pope Road,
Hatley, Qc
J0B 4B0

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