1. Being with a specific group
of people
whose situation draws us as Missionaries of Africa.
(Commitment to Justice and Peace in the broad sense of the word
is closer to commitment in fracture zones.)
- Unemployed youth and street children:
Projects
at Orange Farm in South Africa , Sharing Kampala, Uganda, Child
in the Sun 
Project,
Mbezi, Dar-es-Salaam and several little projects of support for
children and youth in different parishes such as Manzese in Dar-es-Salaam,
Katuba, Lubumbashi, Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso
- Men and women afflicted by AIDS and their families, such
as Youth Alive Project, Dar-es-Salaam (Frank Rossmann), Heal the
Healers Project, Nairobi and in the Sudan, the Inkanyezi Project,
Orange Farm (Guido Bourgeois) Buyenzi Project, Bujumbura,
2. Action and awareness
to analyse the causes and sources of injustice and poverty
(Commitment to Justice and Peace in the strict and proper sense
of the term)
- On Parish level (pastoral activity
in Christian communities):
by means of catechesis, this action aims to awaken this aspect
of Justice and Peace in the Christian life of every baptised person.
Through the Basic Christian Community, contribute to opening eyes
and ears to concrete situations marked by forms of injustice such
as certain so-called traditional practices, discrimination, or
prisoners.
- Inspire action and presence in Civil
Society,
with a particular concern to educate Christians and others towards
an effective commitment. In Bukavu this is by means of ASUMA.
- Practise what is known as 'dialogue
of life', i.e., dialogue between Christians and followers
of other religions - ATR and Islam in particular -, Christians
belonging to other churches or other NMR, with a view to working
together to solve economic or social problems directly affecting
the participants or the people in their surroundings.
- Training Sessions,
either in the parishes
or in the Centre for Social Concern in Malawi (Jos Kuppens); (Zambia
next?)
3. A special commitment
at the international, even intercontinental level to
be where political and other decisions are taken which affect Africa..
- The AEFJN
Office, together with around forty other Congregations
and Societies of Apostolic Life strive to do this work at the
level of the European Union.
- This Office has national correspondents in a number of countries:
Germany, Belgium, France,
Great Britain, Spain, Ireland, the Netherlands, and Switzerland.
It is also represented in Washington DC.
- Our confrere , Jos Kuppens, (in Malawi, Africa)
and
Maurice Oudet (in Burkina Faso), are organised at this level
as well.
4. At the
level of the Society of Missionaries of Africa
a number of confreres motivate, encourage, inform, and advise leads
to follow for their confreres and co-ordinate in the 3 above-mentioned
areas.
