LENTEN ACTION AT AMANI CENTRE, By Cl. Ignace MUKEMBE, SDS

AMANI CENTRE is the place for caring persons with disabilities founded by one Tanzanian woman named Josephine BAKITA. She started it in the year 1992, with only five children. She had a child who was physical handicap and this pushed her to open a Centre dealing with mental and physical handicap children.

 In the year 2006 the benefactors who were offering their run to this centre stopped and this made her to hand it over to the bishop of Morogoro Diocese, who was Adrian MUKOBA at that time. So, Amani Centre is under the bishop but the sisters of Bikira Maria Malkia wa Amani are the ones running the Centre. Actually it has two branches. The first is Mvomero, which dealing with the deaf and dumb children, and the second is Mikese for those deaf and dumb adults capable for farming and animals rearing. As challenges, many children are abandoned; there is also lack of benefactors, lack of rooms due to large number of children.

Knowing that the purpose of lent is the preparation of the believer for Easter through prayer, penance, mortification, repentance of sins, alms giving, and self-denial. As said in the apostolic age, Christians were taught that giving alms was an expression of love which was first expressed by God to them, in that Jesus sacrificed himself as an act of love for the salvation of believers. The Mater Salvatoris Scholasticate International Formation House at Morogoro  in this Lenten Season 2018, chosed Centre Amani for the Lenten action and assisted it Centre with the rice. 

N.B: for any assistance to those persons, contact +255 754 313 412 (Father Beatus Mihando). P.O. Box. 579 Morogoro.