Elizabeth Mwaipaja founded her NGO, Nasua Vijana Tanzania (Freeing Youth in Tanzania) to provide health education and economic empowerment for youth in Bagamoyo on the coast of Tanzania where she has dedicated herself to breaking the tragic cycle of HIV/AIDS by educating and empowering girls and young women. She recently returned to her village with a dream: to build Itete’s own Nasua Vijana Tanzania Community Center. Elizabeth’s plan is to finance the center’s operation through sustainable income-generating activities as well as donations from the community of money, goods, and time. Activities will include farming in the fields behind the Center, craft-making by those learning marketable skills at the Center, and selling food and crafts. CHC was asked to contribute funds for construction costs. Elizabeth owns the farmland on which she will build the community center: it will consist of a large room for skill training, lectures, and community meetings; an administrative office, an income-generating storefront, and an outhouse. She estimated that it will cost about $7,000 to build. CHC made a pledge to raise at least half of that this year.

Elizabeth already has a network of over forty committed volunteers in Itete who have worked with her in the past. John Torrey took these pictures which demonstrate the generosity of Itete's community. These women have brought food and clothing for sick people in the Itete hospital.

CHC 2011 & MEMBERS OF THE TORREY FAMILY WERE ABLE TO SEND THE FULL $7,000 TO ELIZABETH TO BEGIN CONSTRUCTION OF THE COMMUNITY CENTER.

Milton Ochieng' stands in front of the finished building. It would take months before sufficient funds
were secured to be able to open and run the clinic, but it finally happened in April of 2007.

NEW FOR CHC in 2009!
Konditi Primary School

Daniel Ochiel is from the tiny village of Kokech, Kenya and a graduate of the Konditi Primary School. He earned his PhD in virology and immunology at Dartmouth Medical School in late 2009. He wanted badly to help improve educational opportunities for the people of his village, and did not know where to find support for his dreams. He teamed up with Ben Schwartz (Dartmouth '06) who had started World Partners in Education (WPE) to help raise money to improve education in Africa. Together, Daniel and Ben gathered funds to build two new classrooms, a village well, and provide the children with desks and school supplies. CHC got excited about two projects: helping the villagers build a school and community library and starting a fund to help orphans in the village attend and stay in school. Later on, Daniel would form his own foundation, Konditi Development Initiqtive International. His i-KODI website shows a multitude of ongoing projects.

MAMA REGINA AROMBE MEMORIAL LIBRARY --- MARCH 10, 2011

THE CHILDREN OF KONDITI ELEMENTARY SCHOOL