Stouffville Igoma Partnership

our history in may of 1998, a team of 13 people from several churches in whitchurch-stouffville under the banner of stouffville missionary church travelled to igoma, tanzania, africa. they built a building that they believed would one day become a medical clinic. in may 2003 another team returned to refurbish the clinic building, and sent a container with medicine, clinic furnishings and medical equipment to get the facility established and working in the community. a board of directors for the urafiki health clinic was established in country, and by august of 2003, a doctor was hired and working with other staff to offer medical services to the people of igoma. back in stouffville, a presentation was made to the town council to adopt igoma as a “partnership” town. the idea was that stouffville would find ways to support and build connections with the town of igoma. the council approved the project unanimously, and in september of 2003, the stouffville igoma partnership (sip) began. th