Tasmanian woman’s water-well initiative Care for Africa has boosted education in Tanzania

Diana Butler lives more than 11,000 kilometres from Tanzania, in Tasmania, but has helped forge a special bond between those two places over the past 15 years.

“I see myself as the voice of the people in Tanzania,” Ms Butler said.

The Launceston General Hospital Emergency Department after hours nurse manager is the co-founder and chief executive officer of Care for Africa.

“We work in remote communities in Tanzania. Funny little area, district called Tarime, and we work with extreme poverty where there is absolutely no foreign aid,” Ms Butler said.

It was through Ms Butler’s role at the LGH that the not-for-profit Care for Africa was formed.

“This young doctor from Tanzania had a scholarship to do medicine in Australia and was actually…