https://www.hopefortanzania.com https://www.hopefortanzania.com/inuka-hospital-farm-operations-expansion-completed-june-2025 Greenhouse at INUKA <div data-rss-type="text"> <p> <span> Improved the income-producing farm to help ensure sustainability of the hospital so that more patients can be treated, housed, and fed. Included chickens for egg consumption and sale, cows for milk, fish ponds, an expanded pig containment, greenhouse gardens for produce, and fencing.  Most of what is produced will first be used to feed the children undergoing therapy and what remains will be sold. </span> </p> </div> <div> <a> <img src="https://irp.cdn-website.com/1adc320e/dms3rep/multi/Projects+-3+Steve+Obendorf.JPG" alt="Farm and Greenhouse Operations at INUKA"/> </a> </div> Fri, 29 Aug 2025 03:01:01 GMT https://www.hopefortanzania.com/inuka-hospital-farm-operations-expansion-completed-june-2025 featured,projects thumbnail main image https://www.hopefortanzania.com/inuka-hospital-water-system-expansion-completed-june-2025 INUKA Water Tower <div data-rss-type="text"> <p> <span> Built a 75,000-liter water tower to enhance the water system and support the growth of the INUKA operations.   </span> </p> </div> <div> <img src="https://irp.cdn-website.com/1adc320e/dms3rep/multi/water-tower.JPG" alt="New Water Tower at INUKA"/> </div> Fri, 29 Aug 2025 02:57:33 GMT https://www.hopefortanzania.com/inuka-hospital-water-system-expansion-completed-june-2025 featured,projects thumbnail main image https://www.hopefortanzania.com/inuka-hospital-staff-apartment-buildings-completed-june-2025 INUKA Hospital – Staff Apartment Buildings <div data-rss-type="text"> <p> <span> Built two new buildings (3 units each) for INUKA staff and their families. Needed to attract and retain talent and to efficiently operate the new surgical ward and operating rooms. </span> </p> </div> <div> <img src="https://irp.cdn-website.com/1adc320e/dms3rep/multi/Visiting+Physicians+Apartments.png" alt="Inuka Physicians Apartments are being built"/> </div> Fri, 29 Aug 2025 02:51:20 GMT https://www.hopefortanzania.com/inuka-hospital-staff-apartment-buildings-completed-june-2025 featured,projects thumbnail main image https://www.hopefortanzania.com/steve-o-tanzanian-travelogue Steve O's Travelogue <div data-rss-type="text"> <h3> <span> Steve O's Tanzanian Travelogue <span>  </span> </span> </h3> </div> Thu, 28 Aug 2025 16:39:58 GMT https://www.hopefortanzania.com/steve-o-tanzanian-travelogue media thumbnail main image https://www.hopefortanzania.com/inuka-hospital-project <div data-rss-type="text"> <h3> <span> <span> INUKA Rehabilitation Hospital Project – Operating Room / Surgical Ward / Equipment / Orthopedic Supplies </span> </span> <span> Completed - June 2024 </span> </h3> <h3> <span> <br/> </span> </h3> </div> <div> <img src="https://irp.cdn-website.com/1adc320e/dms3rep/multi/operating+room+building.jpg" alt="Inuka Hospital Rehab Wing in progress"/> </div> <div data-rss-type="text"> <p> <span> The nearest hospital with a full-service operating room is hundreds of kilometers away from INUKA.  INUKA has turned away hundreds of disabled children needing surgery who have traveled many days overly poorly maintained roads. Without an operating room, patients must first travel to, stay and pay for a complex surgery elsewhere before returning to INUKA for rehabilitation services. Sometimes, INUKA will send a staff member along to assist them in the travel to another hospital which adds to the costs.  </span> </p> <p> <span> <br/> </span> </p> <p> <span> <span> The newly constructed operating room will improve revenue, reduce unnecessary costs, and enable INUKA to attract a permanent surgeon to work for the hospital. The future hope is to also start medical missions from the USA or other countries and an operating room will be very helpful in achieving that goal and extending the overall mission of INUKA. </span> </span> </p> <p> <span> <br/> </span> </p> </div> <div> <img src="https://irp.cdn-website.com/1adc320e/dms3rep/multi/walls+going+up+for+surgical+room+1.jpg" alt="Walls going up on the Surgical Unit"/> <span> </span> </div> Mon, 13 May 2024 15:56:48 GMT https://www.hopefortanzania.com/inuka-hospital-project featured,projects thumbnail main image https://www.hopefortanzania.com/inuka-hospital-chapel <div data-rss-type="text"> <p> <span> Both patients and staff need frequent prayer to undertake and sustain the arduous rehabilitation and healing routine at INUKA. Recent construction at INUKA has opened space in an existing building on the property. The INUKA team renovated, furnished, and converted this space into an onsite chapel that was finished in June 2024. <br/> </span> </p> </div> Sun, 12 May 2024 22:02:43 GMT https://www.hopefortanzania.com/inuka-hospital-chapel featured,projects thumbnail main image https://www.hopefortanzania.com/inuka-rehabilitation-hospital-project-apartments-for-medical-mission-staff-in-process <div data-rss-type="text"> <p> <span> Hope for Tanzania has been providing needed funds so that INUKA can improve its infrastructure and the services provided. With the improvement of its facilities, INUKA hopes to be able to start medical missions from the USA or other countries by 2026. To do so, INUKA needed a small onsite apartment building to house the professionals who may journey to INUKA. During recent construction projects, the INUKA team was able to use some left-over construction materials to lay the foundation for the apartment building. For a nominal cost, INUKA finished the building in June 2024. </span> </p> </div> <div> <img src="https://irp.cdn-website.com/1adc320e/dms3rep/multi/Visiting+Physicians+Apartments.png" alt="Inuka Physicians Apartments are being built"/> </div> <div> <img src="https://irp.cdn-website.com/1adc320e/dms3rep/multi/Common+area+in+apartment.JPG" alt="Lights are going in the new Inuka Hospital wing"/> </div> Sat, 11 May 2024 15:47:43 GMT https://www.hopefortanzania.com/inuka-rehabilitation-hospital-project-apartments-for-medical-mission-staff-in-process featured,projects thumbnail main image https://www.hopefortanzania.com/more-power-needed <div> <img src="https://irp.cdn-website.com/1adc320e/dms3rep/multi/New+vs+Old+Generator.png" alt="New Inuka Generator"/> </div> <div> <img src="https://irp.cdn-website.com/1adc320e/dms3rep/multi/Solar+Power+Improvments.png" alt="Improved Battery Power for Inuka"/> </div> <div data-rss-type="text"> <p> <span> Phase 2 </span> </p> <p> <br/> </p> <p> <span> Grid outages continue to be a problem for the facility, and the solar backup system originally installed has not functioned properly. To resolve the issues, INUKA brought in a new firm, AG energies, to assess the issue. For this project phase, the consultant repaired the remaining solar power inverters and purchased new battery capacity to ensure the availability of day and night electricity.  </span> </p> <p> <br/> </p> <p> <span> Phase 1 </span> </p> <p> <br/> </p> <p> <span> or the INUKA facility overall, we have also identified an additional issue with recent electrical grid blackouts that their solar system backup has not been able to overcome. Therefore, projects were initiated to correct the problem using the incremental funds raised for the building project. Funds were used to bring in a consultant, AG energies, to assess issues with the solar power system and make recommendations on how to improve the system. As a result, initial repairs were made to one solar power inverter, and we acquired a new diesel generator to provide another layer of backup power. Another project has been initiated for 2022 and 2023 to fully resolve the problem.   </span> </p> </div> Wed, 02 Aug 2023 00:24:16 GMT https://www.hopefortanzania.com/more-power-needed thumbnail main image https://www.hopefortanzania.com/outstation-parish-kjombe-in-diocese-of-njombe-completed-august-2023 <div> <img src="https://irp.cdn-website.com/1adc320e/dms3rep/multi/New+Roof+on+Parish+Church.png" alt="New roof on a nearby chapel in Kjombe, Tanzania"/> </div> <div data-rss-type="text"> <h2> <span> The New Roof is on! </span> </h2> <p> <span> <br/> </span> </p> <p> <span> Parishioners of this small outstation church have been slowly raising funds on their own to build a new church building. The HFT board used a small amount of incremental funds raised over our goal to put a roof on their new building. The project is now complete. </span> </p> </div> Thu, 01 Jun 2023 22:22:02 GMT https://www.hopefortanzania.com/outstation-parish-kjombe-in-diocese-of-njombe-completed-august-2023 projects thumbnail main image https://www.hopefortanzania.com/fr-brads-journal <div data-rss-type="text"> <p> <span> Father Brad was in Tanzania in 2022 and documented his travels. </span> </p> <p> <span> <br/> <br/> </span> </p> </div> Tue, 13 Sep 2022 20:29:26 GMT https://www.hopefortanzania.com/fr-brads-journal travels,media thumbnail main image https://www.hopefortanzania.com/inuka-outpatient-clinic-project-building-construction-and-equipping-the-facility-completed-july-2022 <div data-rss-type="text"> <h3> <span> New Facility Built and Equipped! </span> </h3> </div> <div data-rss-type="text"> <p> <span> In January 2021, Fr. Nestor returned to Tanzania, and he was given several new assignments, including his role as managing director of the  </span> <a href="http://inukacbr.org/about-us/" target="_blank"> INUKA Rehabilitation Hospital </a> <span> . In June 2021, Fr. Nestor asked us to help him build a much-needed outpatient clinic located next to the main rehabilitation hospital. The amount of money needed to build, secure and fully equip the facility was $250,000. After much prayer and due diligence, we said, “Yes,” and began our “Healing Bodies to Help Save Souls” fundraising campaign. For this project, we partnered directly with  </span> <a href="https://sspeterandpaul.net/" target="_blank"> Saints Peter and Paul Catholic Church </a> <span>  for back-office donor and accounting support so that we could get the building under roof before the next rainy season began. </span> </p> <p> <span> <br/> </span> </p> </div> <div> <img src="https://irp.cdn-website.com/1adc320e/dms3rep/multi/Building+Inuka.png" alt="Inuka Outpatient Clinic Bulding"/> </div> <div> <img src="https://irp.cdn-website.com/1adc320e/dms3rep/multi/Screenshot+2024-04-23+at+10.08.33%C3%A2--AM.png" alt="New Therapy Building is Fully Equipped" title="New Therapy Building Fully Equipped"/> <span> </span> </div> Fri, 01 Jul 2022 15:21:07 GMT https://www.hopefortanzania.com/inuka-outpatient-clinic-project-building-construction-and-equipping-the-facility-completed-july-2022 projects thumbnail main image https://www.hopefortanzania.com/in-the-news <h3> Hope For Tanzania was in The Daily Herald! </h3> <div> <img src="https://irp.cdn-website.com/1adc320e/dms3rep/multi/daily-herald-hft.jpeg" alt="Inuka in the Daily Herald"/> </div> <div data-rss-type="text"> <p> <span> Our Chaplain Fr. Brad Baker was able to make a Trip to Tanzania in early 2022. You can read the full Daily Herald Story below. </span> </p> <p> <span> <br/> </span> </p> </div> Fri, 20 May 2022 23:40:46 GMT https://www.hopefortanzania.com/in-the-news media thumbnail main image