Visit to the Province of East Africa

Time passes, events overtake us all...

In this country�@where nature is so beautiful and rich, material and above all spiritual poverty seems to knock at our door...and, open our hearts to be one with the most deprived.
The education of women, girls and children are a priority in the mission of the DHM in Nairobi.

To educate the woman as "mother" so that she can live her motherhood in dignity, respected by all and be helped in her decisions for a better life.

Not far away from our community, a truck comes regularly to empty its load of little blue plastic bags in the canal, a death bed for many aborted fetus' by the doctor...
Day after day one discovers more and more.
Though the government is preparing a law on abortion, the people and Christians in particular, take action to honor and pay their last respects to these 22 'unknown martyrs'. In the cathedral at Nairobi, a celebration organized by the Catholics mobilized thousands of women, school-children, men, religious, Kenyans, Africans from other countries, Europeans, bishops from other dioceses...non-Christians.

How great was the emotion when from the entrance of the Church, 22 small 'white boxes' containing these little bodies were carried by children from the primary school, parents and youth in a silence, that was glacial. Each coffin was signed with a symbolic name: Emmanuel, Ange, Michel...
In front of us for our reflection, the posters proclaimed:
'Mothers do not let your children die!'
Let us hear the cry of our mamas...Abortion is a crime!�@�@

Postulants, novices and professed participated actively in this 'scandalous burial' in the capital of Kenya, reorganizing their activities for the day to feel one with the people in their struggle for life, and happy to meet once again the former students of the Home Science Centre.
The Kenyans are a people who know how to fight injustice and struggle to preserve life.

Not far from Nairobi, 65 kms from the town of Ngong in another diocese, several DHM have begun a new mission: to work with the Massai women, an ethnic nomad tribe of shepherds. To reach there, the way is dusty and when one reaches, even if there is water, there is neither a telephone, nor electricity.

It is a captivating project for young juniors' and some new vocations(aspirants) who see this mission as a response to the charism of the Society: to respond to the needs of the time and place, as no one has approached these Massai women as yet and lived close to them.

"We would also like to be one with women in our country who suffer from solitude, from lack of education, and disrespect.

(P.P)