AFRICA/KENYA – Twenty missionary sisters at the service of evangelization among people in difficulty

AFRICA/KENYA – Twenty missionary sisters on the service of evangelization amongst folks in problem

Friday, 31 March 2023

Nairobi (Agenzia Fides) – Famine, drought, early marriages, orphans, the aged, human promotion, evangelization, these are a few of the priorities of the sisters of the Congregation of the Social Missionaries of the Church who work in Kenya.
“We’re the Congregation of Social Missionaries of the Church, an Ecuadorian basis that has been working in Kenya since 2000”, defined to Fides Sr. Ligia Giròn, who, collectively along with her sisters, follows varied humanitarian contexts within the African nation.
“We arrived in Kenya for a 3-year missionary expertise, however then we determined to remain, after realizing that our presence in the midst of the desert, and our charisma gave many younger folks the will to serve the Church via our Congregation. There are at present 20 of us, together with 17 Kenyans and three Ecuadorians. We primarily maintain pre-school youngsters, from 0 to 7 years of age, in very distant areas close to Ethiopia.
We additionally work in a reception middle for nomadic ladies pressured into marriage and with orphans. Our purpose, moreover evangelizing, is to offer them meals, training and shelter. Sadly, because the Covid-19 pandemic, we now not have workers to assist us maintain 500 aged folks and we will at present solely maintain a couple of dozen of them”.
The dedication of the missionaries additionally extends to the diocese of Eldoret, within the Rift Valley, the place they deal primarily with evangelization and human promotion, “we maintain youngsters, girls, households,
and it’s there that we quickly hosted our novitiate – explains Sister Ligia. We have been invited to the diocese of Homabay, Nyanza province, to arrange a reception middle for women who’re pressured to be circumcised even whether it is prohibited by legislation. Let’s pray the nice Lord to offer us the means to start out this different work which might assist so many harmless victims”.
Sister Ligia additionally speaks of the drought emergency affecting the world (see Fides, 30/3/2023).
“In Turkana, we had rain for a couple of hours this week, though it was devastating, it worn out many animals and claimed lives amongst youngsters. The constructive facet is that this rain will enable grass to develop for grazing, though it will possibly do nothing in opposition to the extreme famine that the entire inhabitants is experiencing. Right here within the desert, the water provide is determined by wells. The water degree is at all times very low and there will not be sufficient within the desert for folks and livestock. The Church and NGOs proceed to assist us as a lot as they’ll”. (AP) (Agenzia Fides, 31/3/2023)

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