A brief glimpse into our trip this year.

We held numerous meetings and visited many clinics, which were crucial to our long-term success and collaboration. In addition to our existing partnerships, we have (as of now) secured agreements with three more clinics and one school.

We have put up our posters on birthing positions in the delivery rooms at three hospitals (Ipogolo, Frelimo, and Ilula) and equipped the newborn and premature infant units at Frelimo Hospital with hand sanitizer dispensers.

We were able to give hand-knitted, donated hats and booties to premature and newborn babies, making a few moms very happy. We regularly visited a little orphan who had been left outside the clinic by his mother the night before, and he has found a temporary home in an orphanage until he is hopefully placed with a loving foster family.

We were able to conduct seminars on a variety of topics. Neonatal resuscitation was particularly important to us. But we also covered topics such as birthing positions, breech births, and emergencies like shoulder dystocia.

Thanks to numerous donations and continued support from Fründe e.V., we were able to purchase new, high-quality simulation models before leaving Germany, which allowed us to conduct the seminars and training sessions here in a clear and effective manner.

After the seminars, we donated our birthing stool to the Ipogolo Health Center so that they could immediately put their new knowledge into practice and try it out for themselves. We’re curious to see if we’ll receive any feedback—and what kind—during our next visit.

At Ilula Maternity Hospital, there was also an impromptu session in the delivery room on labor-inducing massage and pain-relieving massage.

We have consulted with the clinics to find out what seminar topics they would like us to cover, and we will be preparing these over the course of the year.

We're currently in talks about another project or location, and we'll see how things develop over the next few years.

Looking back, not everything went as planned, but we can still look back on a successful 3.5 weeks in Tanzania and are looking forward to the coming year.