Ndumo Schools Orphans Project

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This is a project run for orphans and vulnerable children in a group of schools in and around the Ndumo area. At the present moment thirteen (13) schools are included in the project and over a thousand orphans and vulnerable children benefit from the project. It is envisaged that the project will be catering for seventeen schools in the near future. The project was initiated by a group of headmasters of the schools in the Ndumo area under the guidance of the late Bishop Michael O’Shea OSM and Fr Camillus Mcgrane OSM in the year 2000.

Geographical Allocation

Ndumo area falls under the Vicariate of Ingwavuma in the Umkhanyakude district under the Jozini local municipality. It is in a deep rural area and indeed very much poverty stricken as a large number of people are unemployed. The schools in the area have to function like any other schools in the Obonjeni District.

At the service of Justice and Peace

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From the 19 to the 21 of February the Department of Justice and Peace of the Southern African Catholic Bishops' Conference (SACBC) celebrated its annual general meeting with delegates from the different dioceses in Botswana, South Africa and Swaziland. The Vicariate of Ingwavuma was present for the first time as Justice and Peace (JP) coordinators were appointed last year in each Mission.

Sr Lidia Danyluk OP, the new Vicariate coordinator of JP, explained that up to now the Vicariate was involved in JP initiatives even though no official groups had been organised.

In each one of the Missions of the Vicariate many people had been particularly involved in children's rights and migrants' rights.

For this year 2010 the fight against "Human Trafficking" has been identified as a priority for the Vicariate in the area of Justice and Peace.

An important event

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On January 22, 2010 Fr Wilbert Mkhwanazi left South Africa for Rome. He is the first diocesan priest to be sent by the Vicariate of Ingwavuma for further studies. He will be doing Dogmatics at Urbaniana University.

Fr Mkwanazi is also the first diocesan priest. He was ordained by Bishop Michael O'Shea OSM in 1998. He had completed his studies in Rome. For the last 10 years he had been the priest-in-charge of the Cathedral of the Good Shepherd (Hlabisa).

"Go and make disciples..." (Mt 28, 19)

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Last year, the Diocesan Council identified “catechesis” as the priority of the Vicariate. A priority means that something takes place over other things, in resources, time, energy, planning... It means that we will have to give our time, our energy, our prayer, our reflection to this over other things.

It was decided to invite Ms. Prisca Hadebe to help us implement our priority. Her passion for catechesis and a lifetime experience made her the ideal choice.

In November last year Ms. Prisca came to the Vicariate for a meeting with the Bishop, some of the priests and one of the Sisters. It was the first step in order to share the history of catechesis in the Vicariate, the present situation and how to develop our own vision for the future.

The next step was gathering all the priests of the Vicariate at Ubombo. The seminarians presently working in the different Missions were invited too.

Dedicated to our vocation?

Sifiso Mchunu, OSM

This article is meant to be a challenge to all those who are pastoral agents, this include priests, religious people and of course future priests (seminarians). Let us ask ourselves if we really do what Christ commanded us to do? Are we really dedicated to our vocations? Are we really doing what we are expected to do?

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