The sisters living and working in Tanzania belong to the Eastern African Province.
In the late 90’s, a request to go beyond the Kenyan boundaries arrived to the Loreto Sisters from the archdiocese of Mwanza in Tanzania, through the missionaries of Africa (White Fathers), to help set up and run a Secondary School for girls which would belong to the diocese.
Permission was granted and the first missionaires were sent to Nyakato. They were Sr. Jane Frances Mulongo, Sr. Margaret Chege and Sr. Pauline Boase. The mission opened in 1998 and it is still running today.
Later, in the same region, but in a different ubication, the sisters would start a new school: it was the Loreto Convent School Buswelu.
Loreto Convent School Buswelu was opened on the 7th February 2017 and it was officially inaugurated on 7th December 2017.
The school began with 56 children and the population has grown steadily since then. We had four classrooms to start with. So we started the Nursery school and Primary one. Many parents trusted us with the children and by the end of year 2017 we had 114 children. The school continued to grow.
Tanzania belongs to the Eastern Africa Province.
We are an international multicultural congregation of around 1,800 sisters present in more than 40 countries around the globe. Founded in 1609 by the Venerable Mary Ward, we are a group of unenclosed apostolic religious women, rooted in the Ignatian Spirituality.
We are working in different areas and projects – not out of ourselves, but because we allow ourselves to be sent by God. We form our sisters to be mobile and available, willing to go wherever they are sent. We expect them to strive, like Mary Ward, to have that inner freedom to respond to the call to leave all and follow Christ with passion and compassion.
“Vocation” – a word that tastes of MORE, of what Saint Ignatius of Loyola called “THE MAGIS”: Longing, meaning, fullness of life, a task and the experience of being needed. It sounds like someone who is calling me personally and with whom I can give my life a unique shape.
People all over the world are inspired and enthusiastic about Mary Ward and her way of following Jesus. There are different ways to join our network and become part of the wider Mary Ward Family.
Mary Ward once said: “I listened to God’s deep dream for me and felt a longing to respond.”
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