C.PP.S. Mission Projects - Kamloops

PHOTO:  Children at the Ursuline Sisters Orphanage sing and dance for our group in 2007. The children wearing the uniforms attend St. Gaspar School at the Water Project, which is a short distance away. Along with the ongoing work of drilling wells, providing education at St. Gaspar Elementary School and improving health care, with projects like the clinic built by the 2007 group in the village of Iyumbi, the Mission also takes food, clothing and other basic essentials to the children at the Ursuline Sisters Orphanage and many other similar facilities in the interior region of the country.

 2009 Groups

Group 1:  Eleven young adults (nine from Kamloops and two from Calgary) along with two adult leaders left Kamloops in mid-July for six weeks at the Mission in Dodoma. They built a windmill and water storage tanks in the village of Chihikwi. The project included digging several hundred meters of trench, to bring water from the well to the storage tanks in a central location, plus a second line to a separate facility for animals. 

Group 2: Nine adults (five from Kamloops and two from Calgary) departed mid-August for three weeks at the Mission. They helped with the final few days of work in Chihikwi, including building one of the two water tanks. The group then had the great privilege of building the first "100 % Made in Tanzania" windmill, on land next to St. Gaspar School to allow for the planting of new gardens that will grow 'greens' for the daily meals that students are the school receive.

15 Tons For Tanzania

The adult group committed to raising funds to purchase and ship 15 Tons of basic food staples – rice, cornmeal, beans and dried peas – by container to Tanzania.Through the generous support of individuals in Kamloops and Calgary, $20,000 was raised to buy the food and cover shipping costs.

This container of badly needed food, shipped at the end of the April, finally arrived in Tanzania at the end of August, and was then transported to The Water Project Compound in Dodoma, to be distributed to the many orphanages and needy facilities for children supported by the Mission, as well as children attending the school.

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