In 2022, the ExpandHOPE Campaign was launched with a lead gift of $1,000,000, along with a matching gift of another $1,000,000 toward the construction of a community hospital. This generous donation from Dr. Myron Wentz, through Children’s Hunger Fund, inspired partners who stepped up to match and raised $4,500,000 by the end of 2023. 
On the local front, our team wrestled with optimizing the need for a sustainable safety net hospital , meeting the needs of our community, adding services lacking in our region and optmizing the facility size to maximise staff in a way that will maintain the 15 year run of local sustainability that Wentz Medical Center has modelled. Finally, with  City permits in hand , final construction drawings signed fixed and site moblization to ensure continued functioning of the existing building completed , the site was handed over to Canaan Construction Ltd to begin work on the 7-level hospital tower as the first priority. 

Expand HOPE is in Action !

The new Wentz Medical Center will be “a comprehensive care mission hospital, focussed on out patient services and big on diagnostics and surgery” . It will increase our capabilities and capacity at least three times current size , moving us from 30,000 patients a year to over 100,000 , with critical additions being the safe modern surgeries, a radiology center  along side designated women , children , dental and Laboratory facilities 
Expected to open in January 2027, the new facility will serve as a referral facility for Renewal Healthcare , establishing safety and expanding hope, not only for the numbers we already see, but through the uniquely equipped centers like MRI and CT in radiology , meeting  the painful gaps in care our region of Africa suffers. This facility will also absorb a lot of the international capabilities we have built over the years bringing the specialist we need to serve alongside our teams and build local capacity as we empower and equip our doctors to fulfill their calling . 

The need 

Help us to “ Finish Well” . We are raising 2.5 million USD this 2025 to help us finish all constuction and first phase works in one go by June of 2026. After this we will cut the coat according to the cloth, adding equipment and staffing in a phased manner as our dream budget of 7M USD shall be met . Building on 20 years of faith , stewardship and sustainibility, we know that every gift counts, large sized gifts move the mountains, and every other gift makes the hospital what it should be , a reliable space for healing and hope.

How Can you help:

1. Give – One time, Monthly or make a pledge that we can plan on .
2. Create a fundraiser, connect your church , foundation or company to this cause 
3. Create a matching grant 
4. Pray with us , may God bless every soul that gives , bless the construction team, and bring us to a great opening in 2027 .