Dennis Owuoche - AJAN

In this issue of AJANews, we bring you news about a successful joint initiative that saw the Jesuit AIDS Project (JAP) in Zimbabwe sharing its expertise in youth development with Chikuni parish in rural Zambia. From Rwanda, a Jesuit shares his moving testimony of accompanying people with HIV. And we

SOWING SEEDS OF HOPE

Fifty-three-year-old Elizabeth Shankwaya lives with her six children in Chikuni in Zambia’s Southern Province. After her husband died, the bed she had shared with him and the metal roof of their home were removed, as per Tonga tradition. Nine years later, in 2007, Elizabeth was diagnosed with HIV. Hers is

LISTEN, LISTEN, LISTEN

Fr Bernard Karerwa SJ “You are a priest and this is why I am going to tell you everything,” the woman told me, holding me with a penetrating gaze. Actually, I was not yet a priest then, but on my way to becoming one, as I explained to her when

WHY CAN’T I BE LIKE THEM?

Twenty-two-year-old Mainga Munsanje, a peer educator with the Chikuni Parish HBC, shares her experience of the JAP workshop: As a peer educator, the workshop has created a lot of confidence within me. The speakers were excellent and presented the materials with lots of motivation. After the workshop, I asked myself:

WORKING TOGETHER: JAP WORKSHOP IN ZAMBIA PARISH

A veteran team of trainers from the Harare-based Jesuit AIDS Project (JAP) recently conducted a workshop for young people in a rural parish in Zambia. The joint project was sparked by the efforts of AJAN to promote more mainstreaming of Jesuit AIDS programmes as well as coordination between the different

Burkina Faso

Over the years some Jesuits took the initiative to respond to urgent needs they saw around them by founding programmes or organisations. Jesuit provinces have incorporated some, while others remain autonomous but retain close ties with the Society of Jesus (Jesuits). In Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso, there are two such associations

AJANews 111 – August-September 2012

The lead article of this issue of AJANews honours a Jesuit who has made an enormous contribution to the struggle against AIDS: Fr Ted Rogers SJ (pictured above), whose memoirs have just been published. In other articles, the AJAN Coordinator writes about the Christian Life Community (CLC) in Rwanda and

ORDINATIONS

Fr Paterne Mombé SJ, AJAN Coordinator, writes: At the end of August, I went to Kigali with an AJAN delegation for the ordination to the priesthood of Marcel Uwineza SJ. The team of Service Yezu Mwiza (SYM) was also represented at the ordination. Marcel spent two years as a regent

A RICH EXPERIENCE: AIDS MINISTRY OF CLC RWANDA

Fr Paterne Mombé SJ, AJAN Coordinator, writes about the unique approach to AIDS ministry of the Christian Life Community (CLC) in Rwanda. A recent visit to Kigali gave me the opportunity to get to know CLC Rwanda and to discover all it is doing in the struggle against HIV and