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Arusha Wazee Club donates beddings to Mount
Meru Hospital

By Emmanuel N. Ntoko

The Arusha Wazee Sports Club on Tuesday, 21 May 2013, made a donation of 100 bed sheets, 100 pillow cases, 20 boxes of Kilimanjaro mineral water and several cartons of juice drinks to patients of Mount Meru Hospital, Arusha.

The Club was acting under its Constitution which empowers it “to occasionally carry out such outreach programmes as funding sports activities among underprivileged persons and providing material and other assistance to the needy (sick, orphans, street children etc).”

Presenting the donation to Dr. Frida T. Mokili, Regional Medical Officer  and Dr. Urio, Acting Doctor In-Charge of the Mount Meru Hospital, the Wazee Sports Club Secretary-General, Mzee Ali Mamuya, underscored the Club’s attachment to philanthropic values and, in that respect, its empathy with the hospital patients and their families. Mzee Mamuya stressed the Club’s shared sympathy, in particular, with the victims of the recent bombing at the Olasiti Catholic Church in Mbauda, Arusha that claimed three lives and left dozens of worshippers seriously injured.

Dr. Frida Mokili thanked Wazee Club for their thoughtfulness, noting that her concern, as a medical doctor, was to ensure that everyone is fit. She recommended physical exercise, Wazee Club’s main object, as the best recipe for physical and mental fitness, adding that she looked forward to joining Wazee Club upon attaining the requisite age. Arusha D.C. Mzee John Mongella, who was unavoidably absent, also commended the Arusha Wazee Club for their solidarity initiative.

Also present at the ceremony were Mzee Mohamed Babu, Patron of the Arusha Wazee Sports Club, Mzee Dr. Makando, Vice Chairperson of the Club, Mzee Oscar Tanifum, Club Coach and Trainer and a dozen other Wazee Club Committee officials and members. The occasion ended with a morale-boosting tour of the wards where the victims of the Olasiti church bombing were hospitalized.

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