Tandabui Institute of healthy Scince & Technology (TIHEST)
Dr. Joseph J. Kavit and his wife Natujwa Nsemwa are the founder directors/trustees of Tandabui Institute of health science & Technology (TIHEST). He attained his undergraduate medical degree from Kursk State Medical University which is in Russia and the wife has bachelors of business administration.
Upon graduation they engaged themselves in running of Mwananchi Hospital which is a family business and from there, they as well founded non-governmental, not-for profit organization wing by the name Mwananchi Trust which later changed the name to Tandabui Health Access Tanzania (THAT).
Tandabui Health Access Tanzania (THAT), implement community health intervention projects and has also established and operate a community health radio station (Afya Radio FM),which has emerged an award winning best media house in Tanzania both 2011, 2012 & 2013 in different categories. Under their leadership they have as well handled vast number of community projects with the annual budget tune of over 500,000USD from different development partners such as DFID, Global Fund for HIV/TB & Malaria, USAID through CRS& rapid funding envelope, better-way foundation, French embassy and many others.
Their experience in management of hospital services and community health projects that made them realize the need for the health college as an additional not for profit program under Tandabui Health Access Tanzania (THAT). The idea a health college was justified by scarcity of qualified health professionals in the country v/s increasing in the national population as well as scarcity of mid-cadre health college’s v/s huge number of qualified secondary school grandaunts.
