After a long and difficult journey, one-year-old Nasma and her mother arrive at the hospital, hoping and praying that Nasma will get the help she needs to see.
But the hospital is full and they are told to return another day…
Thank you to all our generous and gracious donors who gave $2.2M over the last two years to Operation Tanzania. We met the target! Soon the profit-generating medical clinic will be fully operational and children, living in poverty with a disability, will be able to receive free treatment! THANK YOU!
Our long-term partner CCBRT provides medical care to people struggling with poverty and disability in Tanzania, but their budget is stretched thin. They are at 150% capacity, and are forced to turn children and families away because they just don’t have the resources to help them. It’s a growing problem that requires a bold solution.
Together with you, our generous donors, we are building a profit-generating private clinic that will fund critical, ongoing care for children living in extreme poverty.
This tried-and-tested medical care model creates its own revenue to provide free medical care to children who need it most, but can least afford it.
Last year, during Phase 1 of Operation Tanzania, we were able to build the clinic up to the top floor. Now, in the Final Phase, it’s time to finish the interior and equip it.
The CCBRT Disability Hospital, founded by Hope and Healing International to provide healthcare for patients facing the double disadvantage of disability and poverty, opens in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania.
CCBRT begins a test pilot by opening up a small ward in the hospital to provide medical treatment for the upper and middle class Tanzanians – it’s a success.
Thanks to our generous donors, CCBRT breaks ground on the for-profit clinic that will fund healthcare for generations of disadvantaged children
With your support, the private clinic will be filled with medical equipment attracting paying patients – and the profit will fund free medical care for kids living in poverty and disability
Private Clinic equipped, furnished, opens and begins to fund healthcare for children.
Private Clinic generates enough revenue to provide free treatment for more than 7,000 of the poorest children every year for years to come.
We’ve started building a profit-generating medical clinic that will have the capacity to handle 70,000 outpatient treatments per year. An active staff of 80 passionate professionals and a facility that includes operating theaters, a diagnostic centre, physiotherapy department, imaging centre, consultation office, pharmacy, optical shop and more will ensure Tanzanians have access to one of Africa’s premier clinics.
Purchase medical equipment (eg: x-ray machines) to do life changing diagnosis, operations and treatment year after year.
Our trained staff is already travelling from community to community, finding children in rural and remote areas in desperate need of treatment, increasing awareness about preventable and curable disabilities and changing attitudes toward people with life-long disabilities. Without steady and increased funding, we can’t reach all those waiting and in need of life-changing care.
The profits from the private clinic will fund more surgeries, physiotherapy, occupational therapy, assistive devices and community support for children under five and families who otherwise could not afford it. The medical services offered to thousands of children each year will transform lives!
Tanzania is East Africa’s largest country with a population of 51 million. Between 3.5 and 6 million of these people, many of them children, suffer from some form of disability while also struggling with the pressure of overwhelming poverty. As in every country where we work, children here are the most marginalized and overlooked.
People with disabilities often live in severe poverty due to the challenge of finishing school and earning a steady income. They also face discrimination from their communities and additional challenges accessing health services, education and training.
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