GDR support for Ifakara

In the 1970's a student group from Marburg, Aktionsgruppe Tanzania, has been sending substatial material support to the Leprosarium Nazareti in Ifakara through the international red cross. Gregory Witkowksi, who researches the history of this student initative has presented a research paper on this topic at last weekend's conference "Towards a Global History of Development" held at the ETH Zürich.