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Federal grant extends PWRDF maternal and child health program for pandemic

Matthew Puddister — Wed, 30 Sep 2020 17:04:10 +0000

The Primate’s World Relief and Development Fund (PWRDF) has received major support from the Government of Canada, allowing it to extend its maternal and child health program to protect against COVID-19. PWRDF announced in June that it had received a nearly $2-million grant from the federal government to extend the work of its partners in […]

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Delegation reflects on PWRDF’s work in Masasi

André Forget — Fri, 23 Jun 2017 18:30:00 +0000

It’s early in the morning, but the lounge at Mtwara airport is already filling up when the 10 members of the PWRDF’s delegation to the diocese of Masasi file through security.

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New challenges for a new generation of Tanzanians

André Forget — Thu, 15 Jun 2017 13:24:00 +0000

The Rev. Linus Buriani is not the sort of person who draws a lot of attention to himself.

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The Rev. Geoffrey Monjesa: Not ready for retirement

André Forget — Wed, 14 Jun 2017 15:49:00 +0000

The Rev. Geoffrey Monjesa had been so close to retiring.

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In Tanzania, people are living climate change ‘in real time’

André Forget — Mon, 12 Jun 2017 15:48:00 +0000

On Njia Panda Road in Dar es Salaam, our car lurches slowly from pothole to pothole, sloughing dirty water into the open gutters, trying to find purchase in the rutted mud of the road.

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Gender equality key to development

André Forget — Fri, 09 Jun 2017 17:39:00 +0000

For the past five years, the work of Primate’s World Relief and Development Fund (PWRDF), the Anglican Church of Canada’s relief and development agency, has focused on the health of mothers and newborns in southern Tanzania’s diocese of Masasi.

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Access to clean water improves health in rural Tanzania

André Forget — Thu, 08 Jun 2017 15:32:00 +0000

As the drowsy heat of afternoon descends, traffic on the footpath leading out of the village slows to a trickle.

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Muslim-Christian relations in Mkumba: Co-operative, but guarded

André Forget — Wed, 07 Jun 2017 16:13:00 +0000

The diocese of Masasi’s Bishop James Almasi stands beneath the spreading branches of a large tree at the centre of the village, and pauses as the people seated before him acknowledge his greeting with the traditional response: “Alaikum Salaam” (And to you, peace).

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PWRDF project helps deliver critical health care to rural Tanzanians

André Forget — Fri, 02 Jun 2017 19:37:00 +0000

Early in the morning of May 15, two large white Range Rovers pull up to the gates of the Mtandi Clinic, a well-kept compound on the outskirts of the southern Tanzanian city of Masasi.

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PWRDF delegation visits Masasi, a diocese of challenge and possibility

André Forget — Wed, 31 May 2017 15:32:00 +0000

It’s barely 9:30 a.m., but already the walkway between the Anglican Cathedral of St. Mary and St. Bartholomew and the bishop’s residence is a furnace, and the dozens of choristers who line it are sweating in their gowns.

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