Hannaford Street Bible Church

New Hope International Hospital

FALL 2026

We have a medical team traveling back to Tanzania this Fall. They will be assisting with cataract surgeries, BP meds (high blood pressure can cause eye problems), meds for Tracoma (a one-time dose to cure the disease), consultations for strabismus, eye diseases, and other issues. They will also be providing reading glasses.

This trip the team is partnering with Your Network Of Praise (YNOP) who will be providing flash drives for people to put on their computers which will translate the Bible into their language.

Join us in praying for a successful trip. To learn more about how we at Hannaford support New Hope International Hospital or to support them financially, click the button below.

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My name is Linda Darelius. My first trip to Sakila, Tanzania was in September 2009 and I have been back there many times since. Currently, there are two HSBC members who serve on the board of New Hope International Health; the 501c3 set up to build, finance and oversee the Sakila International Health Care Center.

Our goal has been to give the people of Sakila a hand up, not a hand out, with the ultimate goal being that they will no longer need our assistance in the future. My first trips we worked out of a storage building on the Bible School Campus of the International Evangelism Center. (IEC in Tanzania; IEO in the USA) We could only be there a few weeks a year. In 2009, I delivered baby Maria in the storage building. The labor and delivery set up was a little less than optimal!

In fall of 2015 with donations from HSBC members we were able to open the Maternal/Child wing; complete with labor, delivery, pre and post-natal areas as well as well child services. That same year, after much planning, the Sakila International Health Care Center opened its doors with an all Tanzanian staff; Dr. Rhoda Tupa heads up our staff. Paulina, our clinic director/CNA/wound care, has been with us from the beginnings in the storage building.

American medical teams still travel to Sakila. Now we concentrate on specialty teams, teaching teams and full medical teams that travel to the villages. Hannaford has sent many full medical teams that have traveled to Sakila and at least 8 small villages. We have also have sent several eye care only teams, including one in September of 2025.

All this is possible because of the prayers and funding by members of Hannaford Street Bible Church. We appreciate all you do for people you will never meet this side of heaven. One of our interpreters, Ananthe Christian, commented to me after a long day in a hot, dry village. “You don’t know how powerful it is – this medical. Today in this church you treated church members, other Christians, non- Christians and even Muslims. When they look at you, they see the face of Jesus. And that is very powerful.”