by Dionel Rodriguez | Feb 22, 2023
Single Mothers & Girls Housing Project
This project will help with housing for single mothers and abandoned adolescent women at the St. Clare Health Facility, Molo, Kenya, providing shelter for these impoverished women. Funding will support the construction of a small house with two large rooms which will serve as dormitories, a kitchen, and lavatory.
“She reaches out her hands to the poor, and extends her arms to the needy.”
Proverbs 31:20
by Dionel Rodriguez | Feb 22, 2023
Support Education Major Seminarians
Fr. Dinh’s project is to assist the local church in training and formation necessary to continue our mission to support and strengthen local church. The majority people in the Diocese depend on agriculture and keeping of animals, leaving no available funds to help support the church and the studies of major seminarians.
The Catholic Diocese of Shinyanga was formed and cultivated by Maryknoll since 1950. Today the seeds that have been planted by Maryknoll have blossomed with 67 major seminarians (2021-2022) and 82 for this year (2022-2023). With your help, Fr. Dinh hopes to continue the education of these young men.
“We know that all things work for good for those who love God, who are called according to his purpose.” Romans 8:28
by Dionel Rodriguez | Feb 22, 2023
Immaculate Heart Sisters Chicken Project for Girls
The Immaculate Heart Sisters (founded by Maryknoll in 1955) project involves girls aspiring to the religious life, as well as poor women, in the raising of chickens (layers and broilers). There is a need for cages, labor, chicks, vaccines, water and feeding vessels, food and transportation. With 2,000 chicks, the Sisters can produce layers and chickens for the market in four months. This project will provide income for the education of the girls, and experience for the women employed, so they will be able to manage their own poultry projects in the future.
“Therefore, encourage one another and build one another up, as indeed you do.”
1 Thessalonians 5:11
by Dionel Rodriguez | Feb 8, 2022
Social Hall at Transfiguration Parish
Fr. John Eybel’s project includes the construction of a social hall adjacent to the Transfiguration Parish church and rectory in Mabatini, Mwanza. The Social Hall will allow for large groups to meet, e.g. 500 youths, and for potential parish income from wedding receptions and other major social functions.
With your help, the re-acquired property will serve the social needs of Transfiguration parishioners offering potential space for education, meetings, receptions, recreation and Sisters’ housing.
“Poverty is not an option. The poor have no options. Develop a situation where the people have opportunities, and they will flourish.”
by Dionel Rodriguez | Feb 2, 2021
Marriage Encounter, Tanzania
Growth in the number of couples and priests “encountered” in Mwanza and in the number of those who take up team leadership roles – are measures of success.
Fr. John Eybel’s project helps to subsidize Marriage Encounter Weekends for those in Mwanza Archdiocese who cannot pay the total cost of a weekend. This project is for couples in Mwanza Archdiocese coming from parishes and the catechetical school for couples’ weekends at several suitable centers in Mwanza. It also covers educational materials for the instructors used during the seminars.
“Love is patient, love is kind. It is not jealous, [love] is not pompous, it is not inflated, it is not rude, it does not seek its own interests, it is not quick-tempered, it does not brood over injury, it does not rejoice over wrongdoing but rejoices with the truth. It bears all things, believes all things, hopes all things, endures all things.”
by Dionel Rodriguez | Feb 2, 2021
Clinical Pastoral Education at Bugando Medical Center Subsidy, Tanzania
With your help, we will subsidize school fees for the Clinical Pastoral Education Program (CPE) at Bugando Medical Center (BMC) in Mwanza.
Maryknoll priest Fr. John Eybel. M.M., supervises students in the program two days each week while living at Mabatini Parish in Mwanza Archdiocese. His education project is not self-sustaining but is paid for by student fees and contributions from the hospital and from the Tanzania Episcopal Conference. Most participants are seminarians currently coming from Musoma and Mwanza.
“As we reach out in compassion and solidarity with the poor, let us keep in mind that we’re not making God present but rather witnessing God already present.”
by Dionel Rodriguez | Jul 30, 2020
Scholarship and Vocation Training for Underprivileged Youth
Fr. John W. Waldrep, M.M.
Unemployment and underemployment are extremely high among the youth of Tanzania. This is a program designed to provide academic scholarships and vocational/professional scholarships to students who would be unable to pursue studies or training without them.
You can help provide academic scholarships and vocational/professional scholarships to students would be unable to pursue their studies or training without your assistance.
“Train the young in the way they should go; even when old, they will not swerve from it.”
Proverbs 22:6
by Dionel Rodriguez | Aug 27, 2020
Ministry for People with Albinism
Fr. John W. Waldrep, M.M.
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Health and Social Welfare
The number of people with Albinism is very high in Tanzania–far more than in many other Sub-Saharan African country. People with Albinism are horribly persecuted in Tanzania. Their skin is thought to have magical properties, so they are killed, dismembered and their body parts used in magic potions. Or, they are killed because people think them cursed and bearers of bad luck. Either way, they’re in an incredibly precarious situation.
Your gift will help protect these people while providing food, medical care, assistance with rent, education, and necessities such as sunblock, umbrellas, sunglasses, and hats.
“Open your mouth in behalf of the mute, and for the rights of the destitute; Open your mouth, judge justly, defend the needy and the poor!”
Proverbs 31:8-9
by Dionel Rodriguez | May 29, 2020
Bro. Loren W. Beaudry, M.M.
This project is aimed at educating schools, churches and the general public, on the different types of learning disabilities that children, as well as adults, face in their daily lives. Bro. Loren Beaudry hopes to help others to have a better understanding of the way children learn in school and how might the schools change their methods of teaching to cater to those who are having difficulty.
Br. Loren is working with three young people who started a Non-Government Organization called ‘Msaada Foundation’ [Help Foundation]. The project, which began in July, 2020, is ministering to children with learning disabilities, such as ADHD, ADD, Dyslexia, Autism etc.
With your help, Br. Loren hopes to work with the members of the ‘Msaada Foundation’ to teach schools and parishes through seminars and workshops about learning disabilities.
