In May, staff writer André Forget travelled to Tanzania with a delegation from The Primate’s World Relief and Development Fund to visit projects supported by the Anglican Church of Canada.
He filed these stories and photos.
Tanzania Photo Essays
Click the six images below to reveal stories in pictures.
In-depth stories
Delegation reflects on PWRDF’s work in Masasi
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.
New challenges for a new generation of Tanzanians
The Rev. Linus Buriani is not the sort of person who draws a lot of attention to himself.
The Rev. Geoffrey Monjesa: Not ready for retirement
The Rev. Geoffrey Monjesa had been so close to retiring.
In Tanzania, people are living climate change ‘in real time’
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.
Gender equality key to development
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.
Access to clean water improves health in rural Tanzania
As the drowsy heat of afternoon descends, traffic on the footpath leading out of the village slows to a trickle.
Muslim-Christian relations in Mkumba: Co-operative, but guarded
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).
PWRDF project helps deliver critical health care to rural Tanzanians
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.
PWRDF delegation visits Masasi, a diocese of challenge and possibility
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.
Changing lives, one cow at a time
Seventeen-year-old Harima Mkitage runs her hand gently down the back of Liviki, a doe-eyed Friesian cow chewing indolently on the fresh grass while a calf pulls at its teat.