Like people, many organizations feel the effects of Long Covid. For NHC, already deliberating withdrawal in 2019, Covid’s forced contraction has become our new normal. Partly, this is the lack of funding that means our teaching in the field is difficult to budget; partly, it’s a choice. We are focusing on more sustained remote support such as the Mabel Rankin Scholarship for Girls and the school lunch program. We also continue to look for opportunities to share our teaching experience as well as potential consultancies.

Natron Healthcare (NHC) aims to bring basic healthcare and healthcare education to two Maasai communities in a remote region of Longido district in northern Tanzania. Our project area comprises two villages, Magadini (Makat) and Wosiwosi (Naipandi) – with about 6000 people.

This report comprises a summary of our work during 2020, including a special report on our Covid-19 response in May; a review of meeting our 2020 goals; a statement of goals for 2021 and a copy of the financial report submitted to the UK Charity Commission. Several of the internal sources noted here are available on our website: www.natronhealthcare.org.

NHC’s co-director and co-founder, Melanie Finn, was accompanied by Boniface Ngimojino, our long-time translator, and Ndapukai Mollel, a nurse from the clinic in Gelai Lumbwa. Both Ndapukai and Boniface are well known in the communities and deeply trusted. We alerted the communities that we were coming, and that one of our aims was to talk about cervical cancer. Ndapukai and I held several small teaching workshops with both men and women (separately), and Boniface conducted this survey with participants in bomas who had not come to the workshops.

Boni and Rehema March 2019 Report

Ethical Dilemmas Presentation to Population Matters, February, 2020

Rehema Simon’s Feedback from Covid Training

Communities and the Relationship with Natron Healthcare. 2019 Quotes

FMS Survey Report