Catholic Church Good Shepherd Parish Kassala Sudan

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in fact is to give the children a basic education and, at the same time, help them to grow up in a peaceful way with reciprocal respect, regardless of their different religious doctrines. In these long years of our educational and pastoral activities, thanks to God, we have been supported by many organizations and men of good will. This has enabled us each year to finish the school year without incurring in debits. Now the time and the situation have changed in a tremendous way: According to the salary of teachers has increased very much and because of economical poverty of the faithful - we cannot attend a contribution from the faithful – the budget of the parish became very tight Parish Projects: 1. A Tent for celebration during the big feasts: At the big feasts the church cannot take all the faithful during the celebration, because the building is very small. So we are compelled to celebrate outside in the compound of the church. We do the Holy Mass morning and evening. For the morning mass we usually provide a tent and chairs, hiring from the market. During the morning mass it is difficult for the faithful to stay without an umbrella because of the heat. The costs we have to face to during the celebration are very high: over 500 Euro! Our capacity and the contribution of the faithful could not cover such expenses. The costs of a tent will be about 10 Million SDD, equal to 3500 € 2. Loudspeakers for the celebrations: The price for a system of Loudspeakers is about 8 Million SDD, which is equal to 3000 €. 3. Chairs: 1000 chairs for 5 centres will cost 20 Million SDD, equal to 7000 € 4. Benches: 150 benches for the committees and for catechetical assemblies for 5 centres will 4,5 Million SDD, equal to 1700 € 5. Transport and Breakfast for voluntary Religion teachers: 3 Million SDD per Year, equal to 1100 € 6. Feeding of 20 children in Wad Sherife Centre: 15 Million SDD, equal to 5600 € 7. Generator or Solar System??? 4 www.prosudan.at
Wau Nur Centre Mary Immaculate Centre The Wau Nur pastoral-centre is the biggest offshoot of the parish of Kassala. The center is situated approximately 7 km north of the centre of Kassala. After a twenty minutes’ trip, one comes into an area, that is admittedly positioned geometrically (rectangular ordered crossroads, that form the residential-area somehow), but on the other hand it cannot hide its poverty: Everywhere wood-cottages with reed-roofs and reed-walls or cottages out of clay with reed-roofs. Here and there one can see a donkey-cart transporting a water-barrel, occasionally teenagers ride around by bicycle or even by motor cycle. The chickens and the goats run in the wide streets, that can be regarded quite also as communication-centres for the people. Curiously, more and more children and teenagers appear to see the visitors. The population of this area consists of refugees from the former civil war-area of the South-Sudan. The standard of living of these people is very low, and in accordance with this low standard, these people want to live also outside the city-area because it is easier there to build houses from reed and wood. Inside the city they would have to rent houses, in which they could not afford the rent. Many of the people here are unemployed which results in a very low standard of living. Soldiers are the majority of those men, who have work, and thus they get a small income. With the women, the situation of employment is especially bad. In order to rear up their children many of them produce "local beer". So they obtain a low income through its sale. But the brewing of beer is a very risky issue: So much in the South-Sudan beer may belong to the reason-foods, however, it is prohibited in the Muslim embossed north according the Islamic law, the Scharia. If women will be caught by brewing beer, they will go to prison for three to five months. Many times the police will take also away most of the materials belonging to the women. Because the distance to the "Good Shepherd" - Parish in the centre of Kassala however is rather big, the pastoralcentre of Wau Nur has been opened in this area. The place is approximately big 25m times 25m large and comprises a chapel (about. 4m times 15m big), sanitary facilities and a surrounding wall. At the moment bigger events take place outside, smaller meetings of activists as well as catechism and primary school-instruction take place in the chapel. The Wau Nur centre takes care of approximately 300 Christian families, what corresponds to a number of approximately 1500 believers. Events and church services always take place in the evening, because then the people are at home from work. There is also a plan to set up further buildings on the site: A school class for children for catechism and primary school-instruction. Further it is planned to build a multi-function-room for women ("women’s hall"), it should serve as meeting place and as a vocational training centre for them. The women should learn to sew there in order to have thus an alternative to 5 www.prosudan.at
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