The Vision of The City of Hope:

The City of Hope is a revolutionary concept. It is a revolutionary way of bringing hope and transformation to those in desperate, hurting situations. It is about bringing hope to communities and to nations. It is about building a city where there is no city. It is about overcoming obstacles to see lives transformed.

The City of Hope is a new concept that was conceived in the heart of Dr. John N. Chacha. The concept has been embraced by many partners and friends of Teamwork Ministries worldwide. Working together with local leaders, as well as Teamwork partners, this vision was birthed. Currently we are building a model City of Hope in Western Tanzania. Dr. Chacha's vision is to multiply this concept across the nations of Africa.

This City of Hope is about:

• Giving children skills for life
• Bringing healthcare to a region that has none
• Building economies through micro-financing and farming.
• Educating and training.
  

The City of Hope includes a children's home but it is not just another orphanage. It is not just a place just to provide a warm meal and a warm bed. It is a place of equipping children to become the leaders of tomorrow. It is a place of transforming mindsets, instilling leadership principles, winning attitudes and preparing the children to become the future leaders of their nations and communities.

The City of Hope includes a medical center but it is more than a hospital it is a training center for things such as hygiene training, child care and aids awareness.

The City of Hope is a unique place - a training center geared to raise up church leaders - productive members of society; a place on instilling biblical, relationship and economical principles that will help them succeed. The City of Hope is not place of nurturing the memories of yesterday but a place of activating and releasing the individual purposes of the children, the workers, those who come for training and those who come as missionaries. Our goal is not just to train the children but also to equip a community - it is about community transformation.

1. The City of Hope Headquarters for Teamwork Children's Homes

The AIDS epidemic that is ravaging the people of Africa has left scores of their children alone, homeless, and without hope. In some areas, the majority of the adults have either died or are infected and the children carry the burden of raising the family. Many wander into towns, living on the streets, being forced to steal to survive. Some turn to sniffing glue to deaden the pain. Others are kidnapped and sold as sex slaves. Death, hopelessness and despair surround them. These children are also at a high risk of being misused and exploited at the work place as they try to earn a living to support their siblings. UNICEF reports that there are over 12 million orphaned children in sub-Saharan Africa, and about 1.5 million in Tanzania alone. The number is accelerating rapidly largely due to the HIV/AIDS epidemic.

. The City of Hope is providing a solution to the growing crisis:

- The City of Hope - Family Units

The City of Hope Family Units consist of an adult or couple with no more than 12 orphaned children.

These Family Units are not just places to provide a hot meal and a warm bed it is a place to provide hope for the future by transforming mindsets, instilling Biblical principles, and changing attitudes. This will create a strong future community, and raise many potential national and church leaders. It is not a place of continuing the patterns of yesterday, but a place of releasing a generation of leaders to be productive members of society, and powerful people of purpose. The City of Hope will release leaders with a vision of a future that goes to new heights never thought to be possible. Our goal is not just to train children but to equip a community to transform itself.

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2: City of Hope Leadership Training Center

Life skills will be taught to the children. These include cooking, sewing, mechanics, child-care, computer skills, agriculture and animal husbandry, masonry, and carpentry.

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4: A Farm
Teamwork has already acquired 25 acres of land and is in the process of buying cows. The City of Hope has started planting to prepare for the children who will come to the home in April. We have already identified institutions that will buy our produce.

Our goal is to develop 200 - 500 acres for farming. We will train nationals with modern agricultural techniques and harvest cash crops along with milk, eggs, poultry and beef that will make the City of Hope self-sustaining as well as provide needed jobs. We have already brought the first tractor into this area that has begun to transform the way things have been done for hundreds of years. The farm will provide food for the residents of The City of Hope, as well as provide cash crops to meet other needs. Besides gardening and crop farming, goats, cows and chickens will be raised. To buy 200 more acres and two more tractors, we need: $410,000.

Our first step to make the City of Hope self-sufficient is to start a mini-dairy farm to provide milk for the children of The City of Hope.

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5: Teamwork Academy

In addition to the small school and training center within the compound of The City of Hope, we are planning to build a regional high school that will go beyond traditional training; providing life skills and preparing students for their vocations. There is a great need in the area for more children to attend secondary school. We have located the site and are estimating that we will need 1.5 million to build and furnish.

Our vision is to build a school that will not only provide head knowledge but change mindsets. The school will not only bring traditional training but provide life-skills which prepare students for vocational careers.

Some of the skills taught will include:
- computer skills - mechanics
- carpentry - financial management
- sewing - academics

We will build a private, national Christian high school. Schooling remains an essential element of a robust individual and societal future. Education is an important element to fight back against the AIDS/HIV pandemic and the conditions of cyclic poverty. Many students in this area do not have the opportunity to go past an elementary education as there is no secondary school nearby.
We have located the site and have estimated that we will need 1.5 million dollars to build and furnish.

6: A Bible School

This school will focus on Bible and leadership training in order to equip the people to go to the surrounding areas and plant churches among the unreached people.

7: Micro-economics

Transforming mindsets from thinking rags to thinking possibility - bringing hope where there is no hope. We have identified several businesses that will help bring economic development to the region as well as support The City of Hope. We will also consider micro-financing for residents in the area who desire to start small businesses.

To transform a community there are essential elements that must be taught:
1. train new ideas & concepts
2. give a little help
3. small loans big results

Ongoing Support:

Though we need great support to start The City of Hope, it will be self-supporting once everything is in place. The support will come through agriculture, such as livestock and crop sales. There will also be income from the construction, woodworking, sewing, and other skills the children will develop.

About the location:

Though the remoteness adds to building expenses, we are building The City of Hope in a remote village with good reason. We desire to keep the children in the own cultural environment where they can continue to be a vital part of the community. We also desire to keep them in an area of stability and protection - unlike what they would experience in a large city.

Why Dr. John N. Chacha is uniquely equipped to lead the working out of the vision of The City of Hope:

1. Dr. John N. Chacha is a native of East Africa. Though he has resided in America for many years, he has never forgotten then needs of his people and never lost touch with them. He knows first hand the devastation of poverty and ignorance and the transformation that can come with truth, education and help.
   
2. He is well able to bring people together towards a common goal. He understands cultural differences and how to work with various people.
3. He has a gift for making a little money go a long way and is able to see much accomplished even with limited resources.
4. He understands the economic struggles that go along with ministry in underdeveloped areas.
5. Dr. Chacha is in a unique position of favor to work well with governmental leaders, from the president's office to the village elders in western Tanzania as well as other areas.
   Ex. The local leaders in Tanzania have recently aided the construction of the City of Hope by building roads to bring construction materials.The President of Tanzania is planning to attend the grand opening of the City of Hope Hospital.
   

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Transportation needs for the City of Hope:

• Dump truck ---- $90,000
• 2 - 15 passenger /4 -W drive vehicles--- $60,000 each
• 2 additional tractors --- $70,000 each

Project Action Plan

Already Accomplished:

Acquisition of land
Local community involvement
Construction of City of Hope headquarters
and Children's Home
Started construction of Medical Center
- outpatient clinic
- operating rooms
- maternity center
- inpatient beds

Goals for 2008

Furnishing and supplies for Mission center and children's home

Occupation of house parents and children.

Continued construction of Medical Center

Equip hospital with beds, bio-medical equipment,
pharmaceuticals, generators and treatment supplies.

Construction of Bible School

Medical Center dedication service - Sept.

Start dairy farm

Acquire and develop more farming land

Goals for 2009

First Bible School Students

Complete Medical Center

Increase the number of children in Children's Home

Begin construction of future High School

Goals for 2010

GRAND OPENING OF THE CITY OF HOPE