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Friday 2012-03-09
Staff, fistula patients and women with children in the hospital at CCBRT celebrate International Women's Day

Women gather outside the fistula ward to celebrate International Women's Day 2012

At 2pm on International Women's Day (Thursday 8 March), a crowd gathered outside the fistula ward at CCBRT to celebrate the role of women in society and mark the worldwide occasion. The women from the fistula ward, at different...

Friday 2012-03-02
Companies attend breakfast meeting to learn benefits of employing peple with disabilities

Representatives from 10 local employers, many in the hospitality industry, attended a breakfast meeting on Friday 2 March to hear about the benefits of employing people with disabilities and their legal obligations to do so....

Friday 2012-02-24
CCBRT is in the running to win a prize in competition to find Top 50 inspiring ideas and solutions that deliver for women and girls

Our work with fistula patients, and the use of M-PESA mobile money transfer technology, has been nominated in a competition, organised by America-based 'Women Deliver', to award the Top 50 projects worldwide which have the...

Tuesday 2012-02-21
Stories from women living with fistula appear in the American media after a visit from Global Health Frontline News

GHFN visited CCBRT in December 2011 and, following their work with women on the fistula ward and at the Mabinti Center, stories have been told on CNN, in the Huffington Post, and on the GHFN website. 

Saturday 2012-02-18
His Excellency, President of the United Republic of Tanzania, Dr. Jakaya Mrisho Kikwete, joins Find Your Moyo fistula campaign

Photographs by Sala Lewis at Verve Photography www.verve.co.tz

The President of the United Republic of Tanzania, Your Excellency Dr. Jakaya Mrisho Kikwete, walked hand in hand with CCBRT, the Vodafone Foundation and Vodacom Tanzania on Saturday 18 February to support the Find Your Moyo...

Tuesday 2012-02-14
CFAO Motors Tanzania donated 22.4 million Tanzanian shillings to support CCBRT's work with children who have been burnt.

Erwin Telemans (CEO, CCBRT) receives the cheque from Roddy Sharp (Managing Director, CFAO Motors Tanzania)

In the handover ceremony, which took place on 13 February, Roddy Sharp (Managing Director, CFAO Tanzania) and Alfred Minja (Marketing Director, CFAO Tanzania) gave the donation to CCBRT's CEO Erwin Telemans and Deputy CEO Haika...

Monday 2012-02-13
New orthopaedic shop opens at CCBRT in Msasani.

CCBRT staff test some of the devices available at the new orthopaedic shop, watched by representatives from Livit

A new orthopaedic shop has opened at CCBRT in Msasani, offering the public a range of specialist, high quality medical supplies. The shop sells bandages, braces, supports and other orthopaedic devices and has been supported by...