Tanzania:
Catching up: Bringing a 'Clinic of Hope' to Tanzania
Since making a plea for donations to help release a shipment of medical supplies stuck in an East African port, the nonprofit Hope 2 Others has ratcheted up its plans for delivering health care to a poor region of Tanzania.
Catching up: Bringing a 'Clinic of Hope' to Tanzania
Since making a plea for donations to help release a shipment of medical supplies stuck in an East African port, the nonprofit Hope 2 Others has ratcheted up its plans for delivering health care to a poor region of Tanzania.
A State Journal story about Hope 2 Others in December 2011 prompted Madison’s Welton Enterprises Inc., to donate warehouse space for the group, founded in 2008 by Karen Klemp and her husband, Rick, after they met a group of musicians from Tanzania at church.
The New Life Band runs a school in the Maasai village of Kisongo, where Hope 2 Others is working to build a clinic and a birthing and nutrition center and someday dreams of building a nursing school, Klemp said. A retired Sun Prairie ambulance helps deliver health care in the area now.
Plans for the $100,000, 3,200-square-foot clinic are being developed by a Madison architect, said Klemp, a nurse in the newborn intensive care unit at Meriter Hospital. Klemp also hopes to build a well in Kisongo, whose residents must collect water from dirty rivers.
A fundraiser by students at St. Francis Xavier School in Cross Plains and a recent fund drive at Boston Store-West Towne raised about $5,800 for the clinic project. Sun Prairie students will hold a fundraiser during their Culture Week in May.
Help 2 Others also needs donated office space near Sun Prairie, a gas-powered portable cement mixer and solar lights for the birthing center, said Klemp, who can be reached at 608-825-9557 or through www.bringinghope2others.com.
Tax-deductible donations can be sent to Hope 2 Others, P.O. Box 1006, Sun Prairie, WI 53590.
“I just realize God’s hand is on this because Rick and I could never have done this ourselves,” she said.
— Gayle Worland
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