<p>Ewuaso oo’Nkidongi Parish Newsletter n. 12 March 2007 Ewuaso Kedong, Kibiko, Kimuka, Saikeri, Najile, Empaash, Olgumi Mass Centres rain falling in the months of how blessed we are that she May or June of each year. came to us. However since the rain fell at our opening feast on the 18th Another blessing was Ewuaso of November we have had at Kedong being linked up to the least 2 showers of rain each national Electricity grid. While week, sometimes more and the trading centre was in sometimes very heavy. phase one we were not The result of all this rain is supposed to be included until that anyone visiting the phase two. And here who Kedong Valley right now knows when phase two of would think it is a always as anything will take place. verdant as this. The people Then all of a sudden, just 5 are very happy as there is days before the official plenty of grazing for their commissioning of the project Every Good Wish to You animals. by the local M.P. and other All Is this ‘climate change’ government ministers, the for St. Patrick’s Day permanent? I would hope so, trucks arrived with poles and though there are certain wire and we were connected Dear Friends disadvantages, one being the within 2 days. fact that we have been Some people have written to What had happened was that invaded by mosquitoes which our local M.P. who had used me asking me what has we never had when we were happened to my ‘monthly’ the church compound before a hot, dry area. Most people I wanted to use it again for this bulletins !!?? True to say the know have been smitten by last two editions, in auspicious occasion. They different fevers and malaria, thought that it would be November and Christmas, even myself, proving that were only one month apart strange to commission a new ‘every silver lining brings its rural electricity project and but they were never meant as own cloud’ !! a ‘monthly’ Newsletter, not have the rally after it in a because I wouldn’t have place that was not connected Sr. Camillus Walsh a Mercy enough to report but rather I and so ……. Sister from England, though would not have enough time originally from Mulligar, write monthly. The saga continues with the joined us in the parish some church plot in Empaash, of And so it is that we approach time ago and is now living in St. Patrick’s day and the which I wrote in November. the guest house in Ewuaso Some minor government Newsletter is back to its Kedong and giving tuition to quarterly edition. officials are still trying to grab many primary school children it. I have spent a lot of time every afternoon from 2 until 6 We hear a lot about Global working on this over the last p.m and English lessons to a two weeks and even as I write Warming and climate change group of Maasai women every it has not been resolved. We these days and these last Friday morning. are hopeful though that it will four months we have had Sr. Camillus worked for many be sorted out soon. practical experience of the years in Kenya and Uganda latter. before retiring back to her r. Grace who had been with To those who have read the S convent in Wansted, U.K. us from the first arrival of the Newsletter since the However feeling she still had sisters in Kibiko returned to beginning in late 2004 it will something to give to the India last month for medical have been noticed that we missions she returned and reasons. Grace, though small spoke of a few showers of</p><p>P.O. Box 522 Ngong Hills 00208 Kenya Tel: +254 733 641544 & +254 720 911317 Email: [email protected] Priest-in-charge Fr. John Fortune I.C. in stature, is big in heart and pump broke so the driver had energy for the mission. We to leave the tractor where it The two volunteers are girls truly miss her but know that was and travel back, with the from the local community she will continue to pray for front tyre, to the mission. He who have finished their us all here in Ewuaso. got a lift from a car part of schooling and who want to ……………………. the way but this car also become teachers. So we have broke down and so it took initiated a programme where Developments, Projects him almost the whole day to two girls will volunteer their get back. The next morning I help for one year and if found & Appeals Update set off with him by car on suitable we will send them to what was only a 30 km a Montessori Teacher Training Kibiko Appeal journey but it took us one School in Lushoto, Tanzania A big congratulations to the hour and 45 minutes to get run by the Sisters of Our Lady ‘Kibiko Committee’ in Co. there as the road is of Usambara for a two year Offaly who reached their practically non existent. course beginning January target of 50,000 Euro within 2008. one year. My sincere thanks This ‘road’ continues for If we get enough donations and those of the people of the another 50 kilometres until we hope to continue this each parish go to the adults of the the end of the parish at year for two girls and maybe committee, the children of Mosiro. This is an area I have even help others to train as Kilcormac Primary School and not been able to cover in the primary or secondary school others who were involved and last two and a half years but teachers…… So that is one all those who gave an area ripe for challenge for the readers of generously and who played evangelisation. It will surely this Newsletter !! their part in this tremendous be a good work for my effort. successors !! Meanwhile we continue to The money from this Appeal support a number of children has already been allocated to Kindergarten Classrooms with fees for their secondary build a social hall in the education from money Kibiko area of the parish. We The Kindergarten opened at the beginning of January in donated by a few readers of are waiting for designs to be this Newsletter. drawn up by the architect and their new classrooms with a total of 55 pupils, 31 boys then permission will be Other News requested from the Diocese. and 24 girls, two teachers and two volunteers. Naming the Parish Farming Implements Cross International Catholic Since the beginning of the Outreach who funded the year the parish has been The Tractor and plough have building are continuing to named, or rather put under been very busy since their help us with a feeding the patronage of, Jesus, arrival. As of time of writing programme for the children Grace of God. we have ploughed sixty five and also to build a small After a lot of discussion the acres of land. This may not kitchen for this purpose. people of the parish council seem much but most of the felt that as the individual areas ploughed are around mass centres were under the one acre and are quite a patronage of different Saints distance apart. The majority and felt the parish should be of the people, being pastoral, under the protection of the have never farmed before Lord. Eventually, they felt and so this is a great that as they had seen the development in the area. Grace of God working so Recently the tractor got strongly here over the last another puncture and the The children in one of their new classrooms</p><p>P.O. Box 522 Ngong Hills 00208 Kenya Tel: +254 733 641544 & +254 720 911317 Email: [email protected] Priest-in-charge Fr. John Fortune I.C. two and a half years that it was only to name it so. Yesu, Empiris E Nkai is now the official name and dedication of the parish of Ewuaso oo’Nkidongi and I hope that He continues to grace us and you during this blessed year.</p><p>With that I bid you all farewell for the time being. Thanks again to one and all for your ongoing prayer and support. Have a very happy St. Patrick’s Day wherever you are.</p><p>God Bless ------As always:</p><p>Donations are always needed and appreciated and can be sent to:</p><p>Fr. Patrick Pierce I.C. Rosminian House of Prayer, Glencomerage, Kilsheelan, Co. Tipperary, Ireland Tel: + 353 52 33181</p><p>Or directly to AIB Bank 65/67 O’Connell St., Clonmel, Co. Tipperary A/c Name: IPIC Ewuaso A/c No.: 40016297 Sort code: 93 53 79</p><p>Or in the U.S.A. to Fr. Christopher Fitzgerald I.C. St. Francis of Assisi Parish, P.O. Box 1218 Seffner, Florida 33583 U.S.A. Tel: +1 813 689 4241</p><p>P.O. Box 522 Ngong Hills 00208 Kenya Tel: +254 733 641544 & +254 720 911317 Email: [email protected] Priest-in-charge Fr. John Fortune I.C. </p>