NSUKAMI Christian is a student completing his master’s degree in agronomy at the Loyola University of Congo (ULC). His studies were funded by the Christian Life Community (CVX) Kinshasa after AIDS claimed his parents in 2007 and again in 2010.

Having found a job for a few months, Christian has chosen to support the education of an orphan, little Thérèse who is in 5th grade
whose mother, Béatrice W., is HIV-positive and her father has disappeared. By the blessing of God and the blessing of a priest in his parish, in Kingabwa, Kinshasa, Christian took on this new responsibility. For him, he has rewarded many graces from God with the love and care of the men and women of CLC and he cannot fail to return this good with good, with the little he earns.

We as St. Patrick’s Theology house would like to thank you our facilitators from AJAN for your expertise in sharing the information with us during the workshop that we had. We felt there was excellent delivery of the training for us during the workshop on AHAPPY. We strongly feel that with that training the knowledge will help us in promoting integral development of young people in our various places of our pastoral outreach which we are involved in. We found the workshop to be very enlightening and we indeed learnt a lot from it. We feel better equipped to help the young people in the places of our pastoral outreach to live a better life and working and hoping for an HIV & AIDS free society through sharing the knowledge and skills your team empowered us with. We are hopeful the knowledge and skills will enhance our outreach.

AJAN’s session on the AHAPPY GENERATION program proves to be beneficial for us Jesuit Scholastics for two main reasons. The first reason is that being young, we are concerned by this program which is immeasurably rich in that it promotes personal knowledge and the development of one’s qualities. The second is that, as young religious, we are engaged in different youth apostolates where we help them to know themselves personally and to develop their talents. At the end of this session, we realized that the AHAPPY GENERATION program is one of the best tools for anyone who is committed to the advent of a better world where no one is left out: where people live with and for others.