If you have already looked through the March 2016 Tidings you will see that the Week 12 article (June 12 – 18) features the disabled teacher, Prisca Hatembo, who is currently salaried as a volunteer teacher in Muumba school. Prisca…
Many of the items we pack at Mamhilad are labelled for dispatch to people who have particular needs. So, when our Zambian colleagues requested a sewing machine for a blind lady called Winifreda, who lived in Pemba, we duly loaded…
Five years ago HHI received a scanner donated by the Deeside League of Friends in North Wales. The machine is still operating in Gwembe District Hospital in Zambia. Now, five years on, the machine replacing the one in Gwembe is…
A recent story from Tom Sutherlands illustrates just how important our work in India is. Tom was approached by a family of a girl in the hospital. She had been bitten by a viper and had been lying in her…
18 day old Royd Chifweta wearing HHI knitted garments. Sadly, Royd’s mother died from ‘an overflowing of blood’ immediately after giving birth to him. There had been no one available in their remote village to take her to the rural…
Bright is a blind young man who was supported by HHI in Zambaia to complete his education, and obtain his teaching qualifications. As you can see he is now a qualified teacher of the blind, and is a great success…
Shibu is our regular bystander in the hospital in Trivandrum. Most of his duties involve work as a sort of nursing auxiliary, but recently ... Tom takes up the story. This month we have a dramatic story for you. A…
On a recent visit to Zambia we went to see the staff and pupils at Nanga special school, north of Mazabuca and about an hours drive from Monze. Dreadful - the only word to describe what we witnessed here. Where…