Milo is a village in South Western Tanzania

Tanzania

The United Republic of Tanzania is a country in East Africa bordered by Kenya and Uganda to the north, Rwanda, Burundi, and the Democratic Republic of the Congo to the west, and Zambia, Malawi, and Mozambique to the south. The country's eastern borders lie on the Indian Ocean.Tanzania is a state...

, East Africa

East Africa

East Africa or Eastern Africa is the easterly region of the African continent, variably defined by geography or geopolitics. In the UN scheme of geographic regions, 19 territories constitute Eastern Africa:...

. It has a mission run by the United Society for the Propagation of the Gospel and a hospital, St. Luke's.

Location

The hospital is situated in the village of Milo in the southern highlands of Tanzania, three hours drive from the nearest small town of Njombe.

St Luke's Hospital

St Luke's is an Anglican mission hospital run by the Diocese of South West Tanganyika. It serves a population of about 150,000 and people come from a radius of 40 kilometres, sometimes walking for two days to reach the hospital. The hospital has 50 beds with male, female and maternity wards. Relatives cook all the food required by ‘their’ patient whilst they are in the hospital, themselves staying in a very basic hostel. There is also an Out Patients Dispensary that treats about 5,500 people a year. Dr Simeon is the only doctor. There is no mains electricity, only a diesel generator that operates for two hours every day. There is no gas or oil heating and patients can get very cold on the frosty nights. Pneumonia, malaria, TB, diarrhoea are commonly treated, but there is also a large incidence of AIDS. The Church is giving a lead in trying to make people aware of the dangers of HIV.

The mission has a link with The Parish Church of St. James, Hampton Hill, England

England

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 and the parish of St Luke with St Bartholomew Reading through the USPG. The information above comes from St James' website and updated by St Luke's after the visit from USPG in October 2010. The previous Doctor had died.

An early missionary to Milo was Gerald Edgcumbe Hadow

Gerald Edgcumbe Hadow

Gerald Edgcumbe Hadow OBE was an English Christian missionary to East Africa in the mid-twentieth century. He was born on 13 June 1911 and died on 27 February 1978 in Cambridge, England.- Early life :...

Local Area

Swahili

Swahili language

Swahili or Kiswahili is a Bantu language spoken by various ethnic groups that inhabit several large stretches of the Mozambique Channel coastline from northern Kenya to northern Mozambique, including the Comoro Islands. It is also spoken by ethnic minority groups in Somalia...

, the national language of Tanzania, is widely spoken in Milo. The local language is known as Kipangwa.