Empty Desks

After consultation with MM, seeing the point they made after observing our school for almost two months and after meeting with sisters, I clearly see that our educational adoption efforts must be directed for the time being (especially with our sponsors' donations for the next year) to the procurement of school books for our students in primary school.

New Page

Please, take note of the new page on Educational Adoption I have just added to tabs below the main picture of the blog. I ask you to read the contents of the page and take a moment to ponder the idea of becoming one of sponsors of our children in need. Yes, together we can make a difference in lives of the underprivileged children in my local community. God bless all who already have become 'educational parents' of our students.

Happy Day

I can only imagine how happy a day this is going to be for many families and individual parents who joined our educational adoption program of Foundation Kiabakari. This is a day when we start to dispatch educational adoption info cards on each individual child under the program to their respective parents worldwide. A very happy and exciting day for me, for our Foundation and for the new parents!

Closing In

Sending completed dossiers of children under our educational adoption program to the Foundation's headquarters in Krakow, Poland, for registering and dispatching to respective sponsors worldwide. I am very grateful to all those magnanimous people who came to our aid and joined the program by adopting our children. As we speak, we are closing in to number 50 of children already taken care of by our sponsors. This makes me really happy and full of praise to all those friends who are with us. Praying for them, wishing them well and hoping that you, who are reading these words, will be touched by this message and join us as well. Come one, together we can make a real difference in lives of our children in Kiabakari! God bless you all!

What I Ever Wanted...

Riding on the wave of yesterday events and amazing meetings in silence of this peaceful morning, grateful so much for being blessed with new amazing friendships, true gems of humanity which graced my life on many levels, I'm working on educational adoption program at the moment, finalizing dossiers of children under the scheme, ready to be dispatched to their respective sponsors...

Photo Session

Last Monday, on February 7, 2011, the doors to standard one classroom opened officially and our graduants from Blessed Maria Teresa Ledóchowska Pre-School crossed the threshold of the classroom for the very first time. This marked the actual opening of our Blessed Edmund Bojanowski Primary School in Kiabakari. A genuine milestone and hallmark in my life and struggle to make the dream, the vision of Divine Mercy embracing the whole human person right here in Kiabakari, on the Divine Mercy Hill and around it - come true...

The Weakest Link

Sitting in Musoma in scorching heat for the umpteenth hour now, waiting for my filmmaker to overcome his dementia and massive failure of his brain memory. Packed all Tv and dvd equipment to drive back to Kiabakari to work on the documentary movie on the educational adoption program and the graduation day in our pre-school. Then suddenly he said he could not find the master digital tapes of the footage of the graduation day. Ouch! So now the whole family, staff of his office and friends are trying to locate where the hell he did put those tapes!? Without them all is lost. And I will have wasted the whole day waiting for his memory to kick in back to life if he fails to locate those tapes... Life sucks sometimes...

'Giving birth is not as hard as raising a child'

The Tanzanian proverb quoted in the headline of this post comes handy and proves to be valid and true in times like these. The long-term effort to prepare institutions capable of providing good quality education and formation of our kids in Kiabakari and the area is a huge undertaking which has taken already a good chunk of my life, energy and resources...

Educational Adoption

I just came back from our pre-school to see how kids and sisters are doing. I was very impressed to notice a huge difference from the time we started the kindergarten. In a matter of four months the place changed, looking more and more like European kindergartens / pre-schools (still a way to go, but we will get there eventually, once we move to the proper facility ie John Paul II Center for Education and Formation. Academically speaking, children have improved in all areas, English language, manual skills, discipline, camaraderie among themselves, subjects...

The Nursing Mother

On this day, July 6th, we commemorate Blessed Maria Teresa Ledóchowska, 'the nursing mother of the African missions' as she became known due to her commitment to support African missionary effort in her times, by working in the background, founding Sodality of St. Peter Claver, missionary sisters dedicated to supporting missions without going actually to mission territories itself.