At the invitation of former bishop Peter Kitula a team of four people visited Tanzania for the first time in 2003. That visit led to the birth of Transforming Tanzania.

From the beginning of this partnership those who have traveled to Tanzania have been deeply moved as they have watched the people of this region struggle to meet basic human needs.

Over the last twenty-five years the Diocese of Mara-Ukerewe has sought to build a program that would provide medical care to the ‘poorest of the poor’ in Tanzania.