Mbesa (Tanzania)
Coordinates: 11 ° 20 ′ S , 37 ° 4 ′ E
Mbesa is a village with about 10,000 inhabitants in southern Tanzania, fifty kilometers south of the district capital Tunduru in the middle of African bushland. It belongs to the Ruvuma region .
place
On the outskirts of the village is a mission station where around 30 Europeans live and work together with over 150 local employees.
There are the following facilities:
- hospital
- Craft School (Nazareth)
- Station workshop (garage)
- Household School (Bethania)
- Orphanage
- Tanzanian Elementary School (Mkwaju)
- German primary and secondary school, up to and including the sixth grade
- Administration (Office)
History health station
When the first German missionaries of the CMML (T) (Christian Mission in Many Lands Tanzania) came to southern Tanzania in 1958, only the chief Mbesas was willing to allow the German missionaries to stay. He wanted a hospital. In the following years a health station was built. The health station became a hospital, which was followed by an orphanage, a crafts school, a home economics school and a primary school.