St. Patrick Tanzania Global Health Ministry

A group of St. Patrick's parishioners has joined forces with Catholic sisters in Tanzania to provide medical care to a remote village, Kifuru. They are providing maternity care and ongoing care for young mothers and their children. They serve about 1,000 people a year and not only provide care to the village of Kifuru but also to the surrounding rural areas that previously lacked access to medical care.

Since 2022, we have raised $15,000 and finished the construction of the clinic. It is now open for care with a full-time doctor! We are hoping to raise money to cover the cost of a four-wheel drive vehicle to transport patients to the nearest hospital in case of emergency (the nearest hospital is over 6 miles away and no one owns a vehicle in the village) as well as from rural villages to the clinic. The village roads are made of dirt and are especially difficult to traverse when it rains.