Milo is a village in south western
Tanzania
Tanzania, officially the United Republic of Tanzania, is a country in East Africa within the African Great Lakes region. It is bordered by Uganda to the northwest; Kenya to the northeast; the Indian Ocean to the east; Mozambique and Malawi to t ...
,
East Africa
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, in the southern highlands of Tanzania, three hours drive from the nearest region of Njombe. It has a mission run by the
United Society for the Propagation of the Gospel
United Society Partners in the Gospel (USPG) is a United Kingdom-based charitable organisation (registered charity no. 234518).
It was first incorporated under Royal Charter in 1701 as the Society for the Propagation of the Gospel in Foreign Pa ...
and a hospital, St. Luke's. Its name originates from
Milow
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, a municipality in east
Brandenburg
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,
Germany
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, the birthplace in honor of its first sponsor
Carl Bolle, a businessman.
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 , 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 Outpatients Dispensary that treats about 5,500 people a year. Dr Simeon is the only doctor. There is no main 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
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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. Several Italian doctors have worked here.
An early missionary to Milo was
Gerald Edgcumbe Hadow
Gerald Edgcumbe Hadow (13 June 1911 – 27 February 1978 Cambridge) was a British Christian missionary in East Africa.
Early life
He was the son of Canon Herbert Edgcumbe Hadow and Edith Rose Abell. He grew up at Quedgeley Vicarage, Glouc ...
.
Local area
Swahili
Swahili may refer to:
* Swahili language, a Bantu language officially used in Tanzania, Kenya and Uganda and widely spoken in the African Great Lakes.
* Swahili people, an ethnic group in East Africa.
* Swahili culture, the culture of the Swahili p ...
, the national language of Tanzania, is widely spoken in Milo. The local language is known as
Kipangwa.
the village currently will benefit from the hydro-electricity project from Mawengi village. By March 2019 the project will be finished. Hopefully the hospital will have sufficient sources of power and energy instead of using a generator.
There is a small village called
Madunda about 15 km west of Milo, near the shore of
Lake Malawi
Lake Malawi, also known as Lake Nyasa in Tanzania and Lago Niassa in Mozambique, () is an African Great Lakes, African Great Lake and the southernmost lake in the East African Rift system, located between Malawi, Mozambique and Tanzania.
It is ...
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{{coord, 9, 53, S, 34, 39, E, display=title, region:TZ_type:landmark_source:GNS-enwikiMadunda is located on the base of Mount Living stone which on the other side of Mountains there is Lake Nyasa. Timber production dominates the major area of Madunda (Mawengi at all).
Villages in Tanzania