Meet Board Member and Co-Founder, Regina Chacha!

Regina co-founded Teamwork Ministries in 1986 (changed to HopeCo in 2021) and has played a key role in developing City of Hope. She is passionate about seeing communities transformed through the power of the Gospel.

After losing her husband and co-founder of Teamwork Ministries (now known as HopeCo) in 2015, Regina Chacha continues to carry the baton in Ntagacha, Tanzania, by educating and providing medical care to the poor and remote western countries of East Africa. 

As the ministry continued to grow, caring for more vulnerable children and young girls, HopeCo extended its operations across the border into Kenya in 2020: providing protective care for vulnerable young girls through our House of Faraja (safe house for girls); empowering young moms (mostly teens) with marketable skills to earn an income and provide for their young families through our Women’s Empowerment Program (WEP); and most recently, supporting vulnerable children (including child-headed households) who daily face food insecurity, sickness, lack of education and more at our Family Empowerment Center-Machakos (Kenya). 

City of Hope in Tanzania continued to expand adding a second Women’s Empowerment Program, and in the summer of 2024, a third WEP location opened near the Kenya border town of Tarime. Additional plans include expanding this program – the need is prevalent and these young moms eagerly desire the opportunity to better care for their families.