Where we Work
What we Do
An African Sister Congregation from Musoma, Tanzania recruited the Maryknoll Fathers and Brothers to Lichinga Diocese in northern Mozambique. Yes, the Sisters had heard of the needs in Lichinga Diocese and visited the Bishop. They liked the area, saw the real pastoral, educational and social needs of the people and said they would like to come.
"Wonderful," said the Bishop, "but my problem is I have no priest to serve as resident pastor; do you know anyone who might help?" "Well," they said, "we were founded by Maryknoll and still work with them. We will ask them."
And in fact so we visited and then arrived in late 1997 to begin our work in The Lake Parish. Called such since the parish runs some 250 kilometers along the eastern shore of Lake Niassa (Lake Malawi if you live on the other side). The parish is just south of the Tanzanian/Mozambican border and is some 50 kilometers wide on average.
A great deal of reconstruction is still going on – of material things and of spiritual realities. Much needs to be done to minister to psychological health of the people who were at the heart of the war for independence that began in this area in 1962 and lasted until 1975. The same people were again subjected to the internal civil war that was also very devastating from the late 1970's until 1992. Some 80 to 90 percent of the rural people became refugees, mostly fleeing to Tanzania and Malawi.
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