The Personal Touch
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…
Scanner Donation From Deeside League Of Friends
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…
India Update
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…
Royd Chifweta: New Year Orphan
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…
This Is Bright Teaching Some Blind Students
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 Has A New Role!
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…
Nanga school
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…