Association of the
Friends of Ifakara
Parish Partnership
Help towards Self-Help – a Tyrolese Project in Central Africa
The Association of the Friends of Ifakara – Parish Partnership is trying to build up a genuine partnership between the Seelsorgeräume Zams – Zammerberg – Schönwies and Pius – Neu Rum – Rum and the parish of Ifakara. We want to assist people experiencing concretely how our faith makes us brothers and sisters across continents and fostering personal contacts.
This parntership should be profitable to both sides. We catholics living in Tyrolese parishes, have much to gain by learning from the priceless value of the vivid and merry way of which Ifakareans live their church-services. On the other side our assiciation may assist training young Ifakareans by taking over a good part of the wages of cathechets, thus helping to finance improvening the infrastructure or assisting without much redtape in individual cases of need – always in close cooperation with those locally responsible.
The project was started at Ifakara in the South East of Tansinia in 1953 by Swiss Capuchins along with Dr. Karl Schöpf of Zams has been taken over by two associations.
Parish Partnership: Next to the idea of a living partnrship with the parish of St. Andrew´s, Ifakara, the main accent of our engagement will be our assistance to improve the education, to fight poverty and to help assisting extant resources ar Ifakara. more >>
Hospital Partnership: The "Association of the Friends of Ifakara – Hospital Partnership" centeres its activities in supporting this St. Francis Designated District Hospital at Ifakara more >>
Our E-Mail Adress: info@ifakara.net
News
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Hunger Aid 2009 In cooperation with the parish of Ifakara we decided for 2009 to buy now, when in the neighbourhood of harvest prices are relatively low, for Euro 3000,- Indian corn. Prices for Indian corn will rise continuously towards the end of the year and will explode, when the great need will hit the people. But then we should be able to help the needy with our resources bought at a favourable price. more >> |
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Photo Gallery We opened a new Photo Gallery, where you may see for yourselves what’s on in and arround Ifakara Parish and Hospital. visit our photo gallery |
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23/4/2009 The Parish Partnership extends cordial invitaions to an evening reporting on our recent trip to Ifakara on Thursday, 21-04-2009 8 pm at the parish church of Neu Rum. |
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16/1/2009 The Parish Partnership extends cordial invitations to an evening reporting on the recent trip to Ifakara on 16-01-2009 8 pm at the parish church at Zams. |
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14/7 - 23/7/2008 An ORF team with Katinka Novotny and Rudolf Nagiller were filming in Ifakara |
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14/7 - 30/7/2008 A group of the parish Zams - Schoenwies with parish priest Anno Schulte - Herbrüggen visits his partner-parish St. Andrew in Ifakara |
