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A PIECE OF AFRICA is this

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carved section of ivory, displayed

by Joan Aitkin, who obtained the memento during 15 years
of nursing in Africa, starting in 1943 with the Colonial Nursing

Service.

by Valorie Lennox
The Review

Woman-eating mosquitoes, a
misplaced telegram and instant
motherhood were dished out with
the tea and dainties Wednesday at
the 46th annual Save the Children

Fund spring tea in Margaret Vaug- -

han-Birch Hall, Sidney:

Guest speaker Joan Aitkin of
Victoria summarized her 15 years’
experience as a nurse in Africa for
guests at the Sidney tea, starting
with her arrival in 1943 under the
auspices of the Colonial Nursing
Service.

Bor in Alberta and educated in
Kamloops. and Victoria, Aitkin
took her nurses’ training in Great
Buitain before joining the nursing
service. Upon arriving in Portu-
guese East Africa, Aitkin and
another nurse were billeted in a
convent in Beira.

There they discovered the beds
had no mosquito netting. The local
mosquitoes soon discovered the
new blood supply — the two
nurses spent a sleepless night
slapping at the insects.

They travelled by train to their
posting in Limbe, Nyasaland (now
Malawi) and disembarked to an
empty station. Finally they called
the hospital and someone soon
arrived to meet them.

The telegram announcing their
arrival reached Limbe a week later.

“Tt was during the war,” Aitkin

explained.

Aitkin spent 15 years nursing in
Nyasaland. She nursed at Zomba
hospital, then at Blantyre hospital,
which served a mixed clientele of
Africans, Europeans and Indians.

Once Aitkin found a woman in

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labor some distance from the hos-
pital. She offered to take the
woman to hospital and the woman
readily agreed.

An hour later, when Aitkin
retumed with a car for the trip to
hospital, the woman stepped from
a ditch, with the newbom baby
tied on her back, and announced
she was ready to enter hospital.

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CONGRATULATION
ICI OEINGON

‘No man, or woman,
sfands so tall as when
he or she sioops to
help a child’

When she was posted to Queen
Elizabeth Hospital, she was pro-
moted to matron. This meant
overseeing a large area, so she
used a bicycle to travel the cement
corridors of the hospital.

Often Africans came to the back
door of the nurse’s mess to sell

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crafts. Aitkin purchased some tiny
ivory carvings, a few larger pieces
and two 30-inch pieces carved
from whole tusks.

The carvings came with her
when she returned to Victoria to
continue nursing for another 15
years at St. Joseph’s Hospital.

Four years ago the now retired
Aitkin decided she had enjoyed
the two carved ivory tusks long
enough. It was time for the tusks to
go home.

She donated both pieces to a
Save the Children Fund auction,
where they raised $1,000. The
money was matched by the Cana-
dian International Development
Agency three-to-one, providing
$4,000 towards food supplies for
Zimbabwe.

“The ivory tusks went back
home,” Aitkin declared.

Sidney mayor Norma Sealey,
who opened the tea, praised the
work of the Sidney Save the Chil-

Church Services

Tea served with glimpses of Africa -

dren group: In addition to support-
ing Overseas projects, the group
also helps Canadian families with
twice-yearly shipments of clothes
to remote Watson Lake in the
Yukon.

“No man, or woman, stands so
tall as when he or she stoops to
help a child,” Sealey said.

Over the past year, the Sidney
group has raised over $1,400 23
well as organizing the two ship-
ments to Watson Lake.

Sidney,
North Saanich
& Saanich
Churches
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