Sacred Heart Parish along with our Social Justice Committee has been involved since 2005 with the Matamba Parish in Njombe Diocese in Tanzania, Africa. We have been a sister parish since 2005. We have visited Matamba in 2006 with Tammy Ebeling and Denny Werner. We have seen firsthand the need to feed, clothe, educate and provide health care for the children of Matamba.
The last ten years we have given over $100,000. In 2012 Fr. John Sauer and Denny Werner visited the parish again to see where our gifts are being used. It was truly inspiring to see the progress in the six years since the first visit. Fr. Augustine Mbiche, the parish priest at Matamba, has been very busy with building St Monica Primary School on the grounds of the church. He now has grades kindergarten thru 7th Grade built since 2005. He constantly needs food to feed the children in the school. 100% of the money we send is used for these needs.
Fr Mbiche hopes to visit Sacred Heart Parish next year to thank all of us. We thank all for their continued prayers and generous contributions in helping those less fortunate. For more information, there are pamphlets titled “Caring Hands for Tanzania” on the table next to the nursery.
