The Lusaka-Dublin connection

Added Tuesday 10 February 2009 :: Category: International :: »

The Jesuit parish of Matero in Lusaka, Zambia, has just received more than €5,000 euro from the Star of the Sea Parish in Sandymount Dublin. The funds raised over Christmas will, amongst other things, help in the running of a Feeding Programme for orphans and vulnerable children. The two parishes formally twinned last November as the Sandymount Matero Friendship Programme. Fr Leonard Chiti SJ, a native of Zambia who has been studying in the Manresa Centre for Spirituality in Dublin, is one of the link people in the project. The Jesuit Mission Office in Dublin has also helped to start a computer school in Matero parish where short computer courses and secretarial services are provided to local people. (School in Matero pictured here.)