This Holy Thursday, we celebrate the institution of the Eucharist as Jesus’ body and blood. It marks the end of Lent’s almsgiving, fasting, and prayer, and the beginning of the Easter Triduum, when we contemplate Jesus’ dying and rising for our sins and God’s plan of redemption for the world.
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Celebrating Women and their Untold Stories
In this AJANews Newsletter, March issue, we take time to honour the wonderful women in AJAN Network. They are a true reflection of strength, courage, goodness, and resilience as they continue impacting change in the life of our beneficiaries within the Church and the Society of Jesus’ service to the
HIV, Healthy Living and Self-Awareness Sensitization among “O-Level” Learners in Gulu
On Tuesday 14th, March 2023 the AHAPPY team in Ocer Campion Jesuit College, Gulu, Uganda journeyed with the “O-level” learners towards realization and maximization of their potentials by steering an extended discussion on Health and self-awareness, to instill confidence in them to realize their worth and abilities. The seminar’s aim
A Peer Educator’s Journey to Personal and Educational Transformation
My name is BENAM SERVICE Stanislas Henry; Student in year of Master 2 in human rights and humanitarian action at the University of Bangui. I was trained in pair education during the year 2021 when Father Ghislain AKAKPO coordinator of the Center for Information, Education and Listening of the Center
The AHAPPY generation manual helped me offer psychosocial support
I express my gratitude to the Center Catholique Universitaire (CCU) for its good initiatives which give us incredible opportunities in terms of training. It was thanks to a friend that I became a peer educator. When I first came I was scared and very shy. But little by little, I
HIV SENSITIZATION TO THE YOUTH DURING THE LANET DEANERY YOUTH MASS
On 18th March 2023, 150 youths from Lanet deanery, Catholic diocese of Nakuru, Kenya, converged together at St. Pauls Wanyororo for their first deanery youth mass and seminar. Having attended a 5-day AHAPPY seminar hosted by African Jesuit AIDS Network (AJAN) in November 2022, the trained youth leaders from the
Visit of the Director of AJAN to the Catholic University Center of Bangui: See, Listen, Feel and Orient
After many postponements of his visit to the Catholic University Center of Bangui-RCA, it was finally from March 10 to 16, 2023 that the Director of AJAN stayed in the Central African capital. This long-awaited visit by the Peer Educators of the CIEE-CCU is part of the logic of proximity
REFLECTION ON THE 6TH SUNDAY OF LENT- PALM SUNDAY
The Courage to Witness Christ amid Joy and Crosses This Palm Sunday, the last Sunday in Lent, we hear two impactful stories: the first, that of Jesus’s triumphant entry into Jerusalem; the second, that of His crucifixion. The Reflection of today’s readings is by Br. Magoba Ronald S.J.. In the
Training Youth in the Battle for Purity
AJAN constantly seeks to nurture positive virtue to the youths, in collaboration with society and its social structures. To secure the upbringing of our young people, the AHAPPY team in Ocer Campion Jesuit College-Uganda joined hands with Comboni Missionaries from 25th to 27th March 2023 to integrate these virtues into
OFFICERS AND WOMEN IN PRISON GET SENSITIZATION ON LIFE SKILLS AND HIV
From the 27th to 29th March 2023 African Jesuit AIDS Network (AJAN) undertook a 3-day AHAPPY sensitization training at Naivasha Women’s Prison. The training was attended by a total of 37 participants, 7 women prison officers and 30 inmates in the correctional facility who are serving different sentences. The seminar
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