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Volunteering at GISS!

I had the opportunity to volunteer at the annual GISS conference held at our school this year. I also managed to pop into some of the change maker sessions and heard very interesting stories about Zara Fazal’s initiative with refugee camps in Tanzania and other projects such as The Purple Box. I also managed to meet the great ISHMAEL BEAH (and I must say I met him several times), Josephine Shmidt, Comrade Fatso and many more. I also managed to meet other inspiring students from all over the world. It was truly a great experience and hats off to the GISS organisation team here at IST and Ms Gillman for a fantastic and inspiring events!

Posted on: March 15th 2016

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BBB- Blessing Bags for the Burnt Collabo With Zahra Fazal

We met Zahra Fazal at the beginning of this year and we have always been really keen with working with her. She works with Muhumbili and the Tumaini La Maisha House at the Muhimbili Hospital for children with cancer. 

Zahra started a initiated activity for CAS which involves delivering bags to burnt victims. These bags contain pain relief medication, bandages, stationaries and some sweets. Zahra felt these were necessary after seeing burnt victims going through loads of pain at the hospital. These victims often do not receive pain relief medicine from the hospital and so putting these in the bags wood help them a lot. Cancer Institute was originally planning on helping her raise the money for the bags, however, Zahra’s contract with Muhimbili expired very soon so we decided to donate 100,000 shillings to Zahra and help her buy some of her Blessing Bags for the Burnt. We will also be helping Zahra assemble these bags in an upcoming Tuesday CAS session. 

Posted on: October 25th 2015