HEALING THE HEALERS
ANNUAL REPORT
2005/2006
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HEALING THE HEALERS
A program of the Sudan Catholic Bishops’ Conference
P. O. Box 66404, 00800
Nairobi, Kenya
Tel +254 020 3869957/58
Fax: +254 020 3873956
E-mail: healers@clubinternetk.com
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TABLE OF CONTENT
Introduction
1. Ongoing Activities
1.1. Holistic renewal program for Church personnel
1.2. Psycho-trauma counseling training
1.3 Opening of a Pilot Satellite Centre in Rumbek, South Sudan.
1.4 Resource Centre in Rumbek, South Sudan
1.5 Other special activities during the period.
2. Program Administration.
2.1. Personnel.
2.2. Financial situation
2.3. Audit report.
2.4. Office in Nairobi
2.5. Registration of Healing the Healers
3. Perspectives for the future
3.1 Continuity in receiving individual church personal for trauma healing
in Nairobi
3.2 Psycho-trauma Counseling Certificate Course Training (PCCCT)
3.3 Capacity building in personal growth for Seminarians (Philosophy and
Theology) of Sudan
3.4 Basic skills in counseling training courses for specific target groups
in Sudan
3.5 In the light of the lineamenta for the African Synod “The church
in Africa, in service of
Reconciliation, Justice and Peace”
3.6 Peace education through sports.
3.7 Volunteer community service
3.8 Future venue for the HTH office
4. Problems encountered
5. Personal observations
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Introduction
The program “Healing the Healers” was established in 2001 with
the initial aim of providing
trauma healing to Sudanese church personnel and laity. The trauma experienced
by most of the
church leaders, bishops, priests, brothers, sisters and laity has in some
cases led to crises, failures and
breakdowns. This traumatizing experience is reflected to the social environment
and the pastoral
activities in the diminishing quality of services provided. South Sudan
in particular has been most
affected by war and on going violence.
HTH has tried to offer hope to the church leaders. In fact,
a total of 69 priests, brothers, sisters and
catechists have come to the program since the very beginning to receive
help and are now rebuilding
their lives upon successful completion or are still in the program.
In the initial phase of HTH, about 220 persons (bishops, priests,
sisters, laypersons and others)
were trained in trauma healing skills and counseling, a lot of them in Sudan.
1. Ongoing Activities
1.1. Holistic renewal program for Church personnel
These are the core activities of the program and involved provision of holistic
treatment,
(psychotherapeutically, spiritually and medically) to church personnel to
help them in dealing with
trauma and the effects of trauma.
Owing to the withdrawal 2005 in latter part of Missio, the
initial funding partner of this project, the
number of participants being admitted in the program dropped due to lack
of financial resources. In the
current financial year 2005 - 2006 Healing the Healers has received and
facilitated in different forms
in the treatment of 16 participants:
- One Bishop
- Nine Priests
- One Deacon
- Three Sisters
- One Brother
- One layperson
To address this arduous challenge we adopted in the year 2005/6
a different approach whereby the
Bishops were given the onus of contributing to fundraising for their diocesan
personnel who require
treatment and/or any form of ongoing formation. The intention was to ensure
continuity of the
rehabilitation of priests and other church personnel. This strategy was
successful.
Under this new approach the program has facilitated not only
the treatment and holistic renewal for
the candidates, but in collaboration with the “Pedro Arrupe Community”
of the Spiritual Centre of
Mwangaza, the spiritual renewal of the candidates became an essential part
of our renewal program.
Fr. Ed Brady SJ, new team member of HTH, was of great help for us. More
than that, for some of the
participants HTH had to organize a specific ongoing formation program “à
la carte”, following the
propositions of their Bishops and the need of the individuals.
1.2. Psycho-trauma counseling training
The purpose of this training is to equip local participants with basic counseling
and trauma
management skills to enable them provide counseling services to psychologically
affected church
leaders, lay persons and communities within Sudan.
In February 2006, a pilot psycho-trauma counseling certificate
course was started in the Diocese of
Rumbek in collaboration with the Kenya Institute of Professional Counseling
(KIPC) as implementing
partner and “Cordaid” as the main financing partner besides “Action
Canchanabury” in Germany.
The Kenya Methodist University in Meru, Kenya recognized the certificate
given in that course.
The three main objectives of this training course were:
1. To create awareness of psycho trauma for church and other policy makers.
For a target group of church leaders, laities and the public we wanted to create awareness focused on symptoms of trauma, effects of trauma and basic interventions on how to cope and/or to reduce stress reactions. A psycho-trauma awareness workshop was held at the occasion of on the annual general assembly (13th to 18th February 2006) in the diocese of Rumbek, South Sudan. During this period different parish leaders from 12 parishes and responsible of health services and church
schools were invited. The awareness workshop was attended by a total of 27 participants.
Participants during the awareness workshop in DOR
2. To train paraprofessional trauma and conflict counselors with basic skills to address the needs of by war traumatized persons and assist them and their communities to break the chains of hatred and violence.
The psycho-trauma counseling Certificate course was trained in two blocks of two weeks each. The participants were recruited and sent from the parishes in the South of the diocese of Rumbek whose parish priests attended the above mentioned awareness workshop.
a. Block One of Certificate Training
The first two weeks of block training was held on March 26th to 8th April 2006 and was attended by 17 participants from different social and professional backgrounds. Two facilitators from HTH and one from the Kenya Institute of Professional Counseling (KIPC) guided the training.
Participants and KIPC facilitator during 1st block of training in Rumbek HTH facilitators and participants in a growth group
session in Rumbeb. Block Two of Certificate Training
The second block of the same psycho-trauma certificate-training course was held on 21st May to 3rd June 2006. Unfortunately, four of the participants did not continue due to different reasons e.g. sickness of one participant, personal reasons or one teacher could not be free from his school service.
The participants who attended the second block of the certificate course were 13. They could all graduate at the end of the course. For block two, the same three facilitators were at Rumbek as for the first one.
Two trained counselors in a mock counseling session. HTH facilitators and participants in a growth group sessio Graduation ceremony for the
participants in the Certificate Coursec. Course Follow-up workshop
One follow-up visit and a follow-up workshop were done by the program staff from 31st July to 4th August and from 25th to 30th September respectively. This was aimed at addressing various areas of concern that were raised by our trained counselors during the implementation process.
A special concern in that workshop was family and child mental health.
3. To serve as a pilot project and model for other Catholic dioceses
Through the experience of HTH during the implementation process of this pilot project a lot of
lessons have been learnt which will help improve the implementation of similar activities in other dioceses of Sudan.
1.3 Opening of a Pilot Satellite Centre in Rumbek, South Sudan
After completing the second block of the psycho-trauma counseling training,
“HTH” opened a
community based counseling centre in Rumbek and hired Mr. Samuel Dut Deng,
one of the trained
local counselors, to work in the office as a counselor/supervisor. He is
a teacher by profession and had
already attended a counseling certificate and counseling supervision course
at Amani Counseling
Centre (Nairobi) in 2005. Samuel was also among those who graduated from
our own psycho-trauma
course in Rumbek and had high recommendations from his Bishop and the school
principal.
Meanwhile he started already to carry out the following activities:
• To organize outreach activities in schools, hospitals, women and
youth groups and other
groups of people within the community and in the different parishes of the
South of the diocese
of Rumbek for the purpose of creating awareness and inform people about
the available
counseling services in the Centre.
• To provide counseling services in our office in Rumbek to the church
community and the
general public.
• To organize and provide monthly counseling supervision meetings for
all the by HTH trained
and practicing counselors.
• To carry out field visits to the practicing counselors to provide
them with counseling material
and moral support.
• To assist the practicing counselors to form counseling support groups
in their area of
operations.
• To write monthly reports of the activities in the centre with focusing
on:
1. Outreach – places visited and topics presented.
2. Counseling – number of clients and number of counseling sessions received.
3. Supervision – number of counselors attending the counseling supervision
4. Counselors support groups – where they are formed and how they are useful.
1.4 Resource Centre in Rumbek, South Sudan
After the second block of training, we identified the need to establish
a resource centre where the
trained and practising counselors could find reference and additional learning
material. Consequently,
with funds provided by Cordaid, we established a library and equipped it
with the latest counseling
and HIV and Aids books and other relevant educative material.
1.5 Other special activities during the period
a) SCBRC annual administrative board meeting
In Entebbe–Uganda took place the Sudan Catholic Bishop’s Regional
Conference (SCBRC) annual
administrative board meeting (6th – 10th February 2006) Fr. Ludwig
Peschen represented Healing the
Healers in that occasion.
b) Staff Capacity Building
In the month of May 2006, two staff members participated in one-week training
by Dr. Simone
Lindorfer (Misereor consultant) at Amani Counselling Centre. Community-oriented
psychosocial
trauma literacy, learning basic trauma-sensitive communication skills, stories
of people breaking the
silence especially about sexual violence, understanding trauma and grief
empathy training were some
of the topics of our ongoing formation.
The newly recruited Counselor/Supervisor in the Rumbek office received computer
training to
enhance productivity.
c) Collaboration with SCBRC
In May 2006, Fr. Ludwig Peschen was invited to offer input about HIV and
AIDS awareness and
behaviour change during a one-week workshop organized by SCBRC for the diocesan
youth in Yei.
That collaboration was highly appreciated from both sides, and it was a
first contact with the diocese
of Yei, which allowed preparing a future Trauma counseling certificate course
at this place.
d) SCBC Plenary
The Sudan Catholic Bishops Conference (SCBC) annual plenary was held in
Juba, South Sudan from
17th to 28th July 2006. That meeting became a quite historical moment, for
the first time since more
than 21 years the SCBC plenary meeting could take place in South Sudan,
so it took place in a very
joyful and festive atmosphere.
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| Even the Bishop was dancing |
HTH was represented in the conference by Fr. Ludwig Peschen and Ms. Rose
Kasina who made the
presentation of their activities and the overall situation of “healing
the healers” and informed about our
training program in the Diocese of Rumbek.
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| Bishops and HTH director (in the background) follow the proceedings of the plenary | Participants follow the proceedings of the plenary | Bishops and HTH projects coordinator (in
the background) follow the proceedings of the plenary |
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| Catholic Bishops are praying at the tomb
of the late Dr. John Garang, first Vice President of South Sudan |
Participants during the Sudan Catholic Bishops’ Conference annual plenary. |
e) HIV and AIDS awareness and basic counseling skills course in the
diocese of Tombura
Yambio
In November 2006 we were invited by the “Rainbow Community” in
Nzara, in the diocese of
Tombura Yambio, to conduct a one week basic skills course in trauma counseling.
HIV and AIDS
play a very special and important role in that area of Sudan (near to the
borders of Congo and the Rep.
of Central Africa), so our training had to respect special issues of HIV
counseling and we met a good
number of HIV+ persons and AIDS patients. The self-help group “Rainbow
Community” had invited
different participants of their diocese and the civil society, so that we
were able to train 31 participants.
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| Participants from the Rainbow community during the HIV/Basic Counseling skills workshop |
Rainbow community participants and HTH facilitators during the HIV/Basic Counseling skills workshop |
Funeral proceedings for F., one of the members of the Rainbow community who succumbed to AIDS in the course of our workshop |
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2. Program Administration
2.1. Personnel
Over the past two years the program has experienced changes in its personnel:
1. Lina D’ Silva Former Administrator, left in January 2005
2. Fr. Paul Boyle Former Director of the program, left in March 2005
3. Rose Radido Former Administrative Secretary and Accountant, left in August
2005
4. George Kabira Former Psychiatric Social Worker, left in February 2006
5. Mary N. Wachira Former Administrator, left in March 2006 on completion
of her contract.
The following are the actual team members:
1. Bishop Caesar Mazzolari, Chairman of HTH for the Sudan Catholic
Bishop’s
conference. He offers to the program continual guidance and support. His
supportive
leadership was especially appreciated during the recent difficult transition
period as the
program moved to serve a more general Sudanese population in line with its
original
vision.
2. Fr. Ludwig Peschen, MD, M.Afr. - At HTH since 2004, Director
of the program. He
is the founder of “Nouvelle Espérance”, the first HIV and
AIDS church related service
in Burundi. His former experience includes responsibility for the group
of Missionaries
of Africa in Burundi at the time of war in that country from 1994 to the
year 2000
during which time he had to deal with a variety of trauma related issues.
3. Rose M. Kasina – Psychologist, project coordinator and trainer;
joined the program in
March 2006. Her former experience includes initiating and facilitating the
trauma -
healing program for those affected by the bombing of the American Embassy
in 1998,
particularly the satellite program of “Amani” serving such traumatized
people in
various parts of Kenya. Much experience in disaster management when affiliated
with
psychological service in Kenyan prisons.
4. Fr. Ed Brady, S.J. – mainly in charge of the Spiritual welfare
of the priests and
religious who participate in the program. He also serves as financial consultant
and
offers advice and insights both to participants and staff from his more
than 14 years of
ministry to refugees and internally displaced persons in North and South
Sudan as well
as 8 years of affiliation as spiritual coordinator in St.Paul’s Major
Seminary in
Khartoum.
5. James K. Karaimu – Administrator and Accountant; joined
the program in April 2006
with several years of previous experience working in a similar capacity
within the NGO
community. Holder of a bachelor’s degree in Economics and Sociology
and CPA (K).
He has also obtained a certificate in counseling and is presently pursuing
a Diploma in
Business Management.
6. Samuel Deng Dut, trained teacher and catechist, now counselor/supervisor in Rumbek.
2.2. Financial situation
In the beginning, the administration of HTH was financed by “Missio”
as part of the overall budget
for the trauma-healing program of the priests. However, subsequent to their
withdrawal, HTH initially
found a challenge in sourcing for funding. In October 2005 HTH approached
“Church in Need” who
generously gave a grant of € 50,000 towards the financing of HTH during
the current financial year.
Consequently, HTH has been able to survive and to implement the above ongoing
projects whose
budgets did not allow for administration costs.
The under 1.2-mentioned pilot project “psycho trauma
counseling certificate course” was financed
by “Cordaid” with Euros 20,000 and “Aktion Canchanabury”
with Euros 5,500. We thank those
partners very much, more than that, we are hopeful that through the pilot
project other similar
projects could be offered later on in other dioceses or places.
Within the current year HTH received a total of € 106,311
as income from various donor partners
as follows:
1. Church in Need granted € 50,000 to cover the overall program running costs for the current
period.
2. Cordaid granted € 20,000 towards the implementation of a pilot psycho trauma training
program in the Diocese of Rumbek beginning February 2006.
3. Action Canchanabury granted € 5,500 towards the implementation of the same pilot psycho
trauma training program in the Diocese of Rumbek beginning February 2006.
4. Missionaries of Africa granted € 15,744 ($18,650) to finance the counseling & holistic
renewal of priests with addiction diseases.
5. Diocese of Wau granted $ 10,344.08 or an equivalent of € 8,778 to finance the treatment and ongoing formation of 3 members of their diocese.
6. KSA Hamm granted € 4,789 to finance the counseling & holistic renewal of priests with
addiction diseases.
7. Fr. Wietkamp granted € 1,000 to finance the counseling & holistic renewal of priests with
addiction diseases.
8. Others granted € 500 to finance the counseling & holistic renewal of priests with various
needs and disease addictions
2.3. Audit report
The financial year of Healing the Healers runs from 1st October to 30th
September every year. To
enhance transparency and accountability in the application of funds provided
to the program, we felt
the need to carry out an independent external audit of our activities starting
July 2004 to September
2006. The result was very positive and encouraging. Prior to this, the program
activities had already
been audited under the Sudan Catholic Bishops Regional Conference (SCBRC)
secretariat.
2.4. Office in Nairobi
In October 2002, an office was set up in Kileleshwa, Nairobi, dedicated
to the HTH program. This
office was a sub branch to the main body of SCBC. This has enabled the program
to provide for the
special needs in the healing process of the participants.
In July 2006, HTH relocated its office to Ndemi Road, Kilimani area of
Nairobi. Besides better costeffectiveness,this move was necessary to improve
accessibility of the office, provide better space and offers a strategic
location for collaboration and partnership with other organizations. More
than that,
we wanted to move from a high-class area in Nairobi to a simpler place.
2.5. Registration of Healing the Healers
During the SCBC plenary held in July it was resolved that its Secretariat
(SCBRC) formerly based
in Nairobi should relocate its operational base to Juba, Sudan before the
end of the year 2006.
Consequent to this resolution it has necessitated HTH to pursue its registration
as a body of the SCBC
in Kenya to ensure its continued operation since it is currently operating
under SCBRC.
During its finance committee meeting held on 6th September 2006 it was
resolved that HTH should
pursue registration in Kenya as an international church non-governmental
organization. We are
actually undertaking the necessary steps to implement that decision.
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3. Perspectives for the future
3.1 Continuity in receiving individual church personal for trauma healing
in Nairobi
Also in the future, HTH will be ready to receive church personal in Nairobi
for their healing
program, whenever the Bishops request these services. Those activities would
have to be planned,
realized and budgeted in an individually for each participant following
their individual needs.
3.2 Psycho-trauma Counseling Certificate Course Training (PCCCT)
In its efforts to offer quality and substantive trauma healing services,
and following the request of
different Bishops, HTH has planned for 2007 to implement PCCCT in different
dioceses of Sudan,
similar to the one already implemented in the diocese of Rumbek. But later
on we decided to
strengthen the already existing team of counselors in Rumbek and the experience
in that diocese where
we have already the first HTH-office in Sudan, in order to make it really
sustainable.
The following dioceses have already approached us to carry out a
PCCCT during the year 2007:
1. Diocese of El Obeid,
2. Diocese of Rumbek (continuation),
3. Diocese of Torit,
4. Diocese of Yei
5. Diocese of Tombura Yambio
6. Diocese of Wau
We have approached several donor partners to provide funds for the implementation
of the above
trainings. As at the end of the year, the Diocese of Rottenburg/ Stuttgart
had committed to provide
funds for the implementation of the training in the Diocese of El Obeid
from January 2007.
3.3 Capacity building in personal growth for Seminarians (Philosophy
and Theology) of
Sudan
In their annual meeting in July 06 the Sudanese Bishops requested HTH to
organize training for
self-knowledge, in personal growth and basic counseling skills for their
seminarians (Philosophy and
Theology), who are actually still studying in Khartoum. Preparations are
made to implement that
request, and we hope to win the “Propaganda Fidei” of the Vatican
as financing partner for that
measure.
3.4 Basic skills in counseling training courses for specific target
groups in Sudan
At the occasion of different visits in Sudan we heard requests and analyzed
the need for basic
knowledge and basic skills in listening and counseling for not only traumatized
persons in different
target groups of the population. That is not a question of professional
training, but we felt the need of
specific target groups to be better prepared to respond to problems in their
society. That would be a
contribution to the recovering and peace building in their country. We think
about hospital and health
care personal, prison officers, soldiers, leaders of women or youth groups,
catechist training programs
and others who require our assistance. In Rumbek we experienced a real thirst
of people to learn more
about them.
3.5 In the light of the lineamenta for the African Synod “The church
in Africa, in service of
Reconciliation, Justice and Peace”
We are aware of an increasing need for education in forgiveness, reconciliation
and peace in
different areas mainly in South Sudan where we have more experience. Sometimes
one can have the
impression that after the end of the former war the different ethnic groups
are looking out for other
enemies to fight with. In our training programs on the “ground level”
in Sudan we heard about a lot of
problems of that kind and we included elements of peace education in our
program.
So far, in November 06, the dioceses of Tombura Yambio and Rumbek started
to bring Nilotic and
Bantu chiefs together in order to dialogue about common problems and how
to solve them. Those
actions are started in the light of the lineamenta prepared in 2006 for
the second special synod of
Bishops for Africa. We feel our role to contribute to their goals and objectives
in the future as well.
3.6 Peace education through sports
The experience of the Xaverian youth centre in Kamenge/Bujumbura (“Centre
jeunes de
Kamenge”) shows the effectiveness in fostering sports for peace education
mainly for the youth from
different ethnic groups who are in conflict. Sports activities have shown
the potential to break down
prejudices and antagonisms between individuals and enable the participants
to build mutual respect
and friendship, which forms the basis for peaceful and harmonious interaction.
Such activities with the youth won for the Centre jeunes de Kamenge the
“Right livelihood award”
also known as the “Alternative Nobel Prize” in the year 2002.
According to our different experiences in some places in South Sudan we
have the expectation that
sports can play a similar role here as well. We heard a lot of requests
and hopes of groups to be
supported with sport material and programs. Sport can bring people together
who had no relationship
before. Young people need a frame, with rules and regulations, to be occupied
and measure
themselves in a peaceful way instead of hanging around often idle, without
any content in their lives
and often ending up to play and fight with their guns. We do believe in
the positive healing values of
sports and we hope to find partners who can help us with initiatives, expertise
or sport material in
order to help those local groups.
3.7 Volunteer community service
The same Kamenge Center found that Community volunteer service was able
to produce similar
positive results in peace building involving youth from different hostile
ethnic communities. Such
volunteer community service has shown its effectiveness in peace building
over the last 50 and more
years in various places in Europe and South Asia. HTH wants to study in
their pilot project in Rumbek
the effectiveness of such volunteer community program in reducing trauma
among the young local
population. The approach of bringing people together for manual work in
a common project is
sometimes called “Theology of perspiration”, because in working
together people learn to do away
with their prejudices and learn to recognize the good qualities and the
image of God in each other.
3.8 Future venue for the HTH office
Actually we are observing that a good number of NGOs and other structures,
together with the
SCBRC office, are moving over from Nairobi to different places in South
Sudan. With regard to the
future, we are analyzing the situation in Sudan to find out if and when
the moment might be
appropriate to move over with our HTH office as well. For the time being
we do believe that this is not
yet the right moment for HTH since the Holistic renewal program for the
church personnel and the
overall administration is still easier to be organized in and from Nairobi
than in any place in South
Sudan. But we are open to re-evaluate the situation at any time.
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4. Problems encountered
One of the main problems we encountered in the course of last year is difficulties
in getting entry
visas for the Northern part of Sudan. There were repeated promises and endless
visits to the Sudanese
Embassy without any positive result. The best will of Bishops or the General
Secretaries of Bishop’s
conferences could not help either.
We also experienced logistical problems inside Sudan during the rainy seasons
as our movement
and that of participants was very limited. In addition, since one of our
target groups is the one of
school teachers, we planned our training to coincide with school holidays.
However, some of the
participants could not complete our courses during school periods. In some
instances our planning was
greatly hampered by poor communication facilities leading to delays and
postponement of training
workshops.
We do believe that the foregoing experiences have greatly helped improve
our work: “lessons
learnt”!
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5. Personal observations
The year 2006 brought a completely new dynamic to HTH. We tried to combine
the initial
vocation of HTH, i.e. the holistic healing program for church personnel
from Sudan, with new
challenges in training and capacity building of local people in Sudan, as
it was stipulated in Bishop’s
conference meeting mainly in Namugongo (2005) and in Juba (2006). We know
that such activities
took already place in the very first years of HTH, at that time under the
guidance of Paul Boyle and
Dave Bercelli. So by that, we are coming back to the original ideas of HTH.
Through the training activities in Sudan, mainly when we were active in
our pilot project in
Rumbek, we learnt a lot, since we were operating much more on a basic ground
level than it has been
in the years before. The target group of people reached through our activities
is now much broader.
There are not only Church personnel any more, but persons of all social
background and groups of the
society are represented: representatives from health professions, prison
and security services, people of
the ministry of culture, youth and sports of the New Sudan, a leader from
a women group, a good
number of HIV+ members of the “rainbow community” in Nzara, students
and last but not least
representatives of the world of religious people like priests, sisters,
brothers and catechists were
trained. Through those our outreach was much further than it ever has been
in the years before, and we
hope, for sure, to increase these activities in the years to come.
In order to be able to realize all those activities, it was necessary to
strengthen the spirit of
teamwork in our new team. As a matter of fact, it is just that spirit which
brought us forward. I felt the
need to change the whole HTH team, and it became a success story. Everybody
can bring his/her
experience in. We are very glad and grateful to have our Mzee, Fr. Ed Brady
SJ, now as a member of
our team HTH. With his experience and wisdom he inspires and encourages
us, and he is of great help.
But besides the new team the whole set-up of HTH had to be changed, new
priorities (besides the
old ones), new financial partners and even a new office location in Kilimani.
Through the recent audit
report we intended to show our financial integrity, and that was done.
It became obvious and clear: With the help of God, HTH had survived some
difficult times, and
we are ready to face a challenging future.
At the end of this report, I would like to express my gratitude and cordial
thanks to:
• First of all the Sudanese Bishops as the owner of HTH, for all their trust and support for our
work and our team.
• Bishop Caesar Mazzolari as their chair person for HTH, for his interest, encouragement,
support, the time offered and his friendship with all of us.
• The Missionaries of Africa for analyzing the work of HTH as an important one and let me do
that challenging and fascinating work in Sudan.
• The different groups of donors, as individuals or organizations, for enabling us to do our
work through their financial support and interest.
• My own team of HTH, for their competence, their zeal, their joy to work and to collaborate in a team, and all the spirit of humour and the numerous occasions to laugh together.
• Last, but not least, we thank the merciful God for calling us to contribute to set up His
Kingdom in Sudan. We have a wonderful vocation:
“Blessed are the peacemakers for they will be called
children of God.” (Mt.5, 9)
Ludwig Peschen, MD, M.Afr.
Program Director HTH
Nairobi, 01.01.07
