Aboubakar Banza Client Profile: when health services and microfinance meet

Hidden off a dirt path in the Bel Air quarter, a modest size clinic appears out of nowhere. Entering the first building, we discover 3 fully equipped beds with mosquito nets, a consulting room and no less than 5 more canopy beds in the last compartment. We are then led into the doctor’s small office, tucked away amidst the expansion work. He explains in perfect French that “they would love to open a radiology and gynecology center.” When asked about his ambitions, he candidly says: “I want this place to become a hospital.”

Aboubakar Banza is a certified Congolese practitioner who survived the bureaucratic hurdles of the 5 year undergraduate system. He has been a HOPE client for 12 cycles and has faithfully reimbursed three times the highest benchmark of $2,000. Moreover, he employs two qualified coworkers. While existing the parcel, he points over and designates a small kiosk resembling stall as the pharmacy. That is where he begun his business.

In a country filled with mystic occult beliefs, HOPE RDC is a testimony to the physical and spiritual power of the Lord. Syncretism has perverted the bantu culture for centuries, but the revival of the Church is one of the gateways to development. Beyond serving his community in multiple sustainable ways, Aboubakar is a devout Muslim believer. Pray that the Father would continue to use this enterprise for His glory and soften this man’s heart to the sacrificial love of our Savior, Jesus Christ.