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St Joseph’s Feast in MCSPA’s Missions

20 March 2019 Posted by education, Mission, News 0 thoughts on “St Joseph’s Feast in MCSPA’s Missions”

Kokuselei – School children’s Mass in the New church and meal.

The MCSPA Members at Kokuselei celebrated the feast of St Joseph with style. All the children of St. Joseph primary school and the whole village attended mass and shared a meal together. Let St. Joseph be the role model of the school.

Nariokotome – Celebrating the feast of St Joseph with plenty to eat!!

‘The children at St Joseph Mother and Child Centre – Nariokotome celebrated the feast of St Joseph with plenty to eat. Imitating the foot steps of St Joseph, a father to all, who provided for his children the same happens at the centre in Nariokotome. Let’s give the best to our children.

Muketuri MCC Ethiopia – Drawing to St Joseph

The children at St Joseph Mother and Child Centre – Muketuri Ethiopia, celebrated the feast by making the best drawings dedicated to St Joseph. Lets help these children develop their talents.

Feast of St Joseph – Andode Mission Ethiopia

The children of St Joseph Mother and Child Centre – Andode, were not left out for the feast of St. Joseph. It was great to see the children sing hymns to St Joseph. They shared the little they had together, but the best was the smiles on their faces.

Lillian Omari MCSPA

Youth Formation at Kokuselei

22 December 2018 Posted by education 0 thoughts on “Youth Formation at Kokuselei”

Nariokotome Parish had its youth formation week from the 18th-21st December 2018. There were 108 youth, drawn from the 8 major outstations of the Parish. They were given talks on early pregnancy, HIV/AIDS, mentorship, behaviour change/life skills, youth and the Church. Besides the talks they had sports, dancing and talent show. They had daily Mass as well. We thank our facilitators, Mr. John Namesek, Mr. Brizan Were and Mr. Martino Emoru. The youth were most cooperative and were given various awards and will be given certificates as well. Thank you Kokuselei Mission for hosting and taking care of the youth.

Fr. Denis Odongo MCSPA

Patience + Hard Work + Love = Beautiful Results!

9 November 2018 Posted by education, General News 0 thoughts on “Patience + Hard Work + Love = Beautiful Results!”

It was a bright morning when all the children at the St. Joseph’s Mother and Child Center at Muketurri (Ethiopia), participated in painting their own school.

The 350 children together with the 7 children of the special class joined hands with the volunteers, Mrs. Maria from Argentina and a team from Madrid, to make their school beautiful.

Mrs. Pisca, an artist and a painter, wanted to do something that would involve the children, and could help them learn new skills. She brought in all the necessary materials to make sure children participated. And the end result was amazing! When asked, some of the children said, “It was my first wall painting, and I never thought that I was good at it!” Another child said, ”We all started with black paint and I thought, ‘Why so boring a colour?’ But now look at the end result!” One of the children from the special class cried out, “I can now paint!”

At the beginning I was of the same opinion as some of the children, for I too thought, “Oh dear, how would this be carried out and what would the end result be?” Firstly, imagine involving 350 children in painting the school, all the mess that would be created! Little did I realise that, when dealing with children, patience is much more important than the end result. Time and lots of love put into what we do, lead to beautiful results.

As the work progressed, I sat in front of the wall taking photos of how the activity, initially messy, was now taking on some real form slowly and it reached a point when we saw the first mango fruits! And I thought, “Something with colour has now taken shape”.

And after such a great effort there is always a prize, and all the 350 children received a packet of _Dulce de leche argentino_ (an Argentinian sweet made from milk) after their paint job. All the children carried the sweet back to school as a snack. This made them very happy and that day they went home feeling “accomplished”!

Let us move out of our comfort zones and share our talents with the little ones and make them feel that they are able to accomplish things so that they continue to learn more each day.

Enjoy the photos and see how a white wall was transformed into a piece of art through patience, hard work and love!

Lillian Omari
MCSPA

The New Look of St. John the Evangelist ECD at Kare Edome

10 October 2018 Posted by education 0 thoughts on “The New Look of St. John the Evangelist ECD at Kare Edome”

St. John the Evangelist Kare-Edome Early Childhood Development Centre (ECD) is one of our nurseries at Todonyang Mission. It has 100 children who receive education and meals (breakfast and lunch) from Monday to Saturday.

It is now 1 yearsince the children of Kare-Edome moved from studying under a tree to the present building, and now the ECD is blessed with a new building and a new look. We would like to thank the local community, the parish and the donors who brought St. John the Evangelist ECD to where it is now with a classroom, dining room, an office and a dispensary. It is from there that the children, mothers and the elders are able to receive services like medical attention and feeding programs to combat malnourishment.
The children have a teacher and a helper, and are helped to integrate into the education system at this stage.

The local community is being made aware of the importance of allowing their children to learn, aside from taking care of the family cattle. They are slowly giving in to this but much has to be done still as the customs and beliefs of the community are rather strong.

A borehole was drilled and water is now pumped using solar energy. The families are able to feed their animals as well as have water for their own use. It was possible to set up a garden where people are being taught on farming techniques to grow their own food, hence fighting starvation and malnutrition.
The availability of such facilities has enhanced hygiene and people have made more permanent homes.

This has made the work of evangelisation easier.

We pray that all these projects may forge ahead and that the local families may benefit more.

Josephine Amuma, MCSPA

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