The MSC community in Cameroon is growing steadily, with a postnotiviate programme training MSCs in their theological studies and preparing them for missionary life. In this academic year, the programme is hosting 27 students and their three formators, which includes 10 new postnovices.
MSC Post-Novitiate students in Cameroon
The MSC Jules Chevalier Post-Novitiate Programme is located at the Catholic University of Central Africa in Yaoundé, Cameroon. Each year, the programme welcomes students who have progressed from the Novitiate Programme and who are committed to continuing on their missionary journey. In previous years, our mission friends and benefactors here at the Irish Province of the Missionaries of the Sacred Heart have helped to provide funding for laptops and essential equipment for the students.
“We really are grateful for this support,” writes Fr Bonaventure. “We thank you from the bottom of our hearts for all the help we received so far.”
This year, the post-novitiate community are asking for our help once again in providing laptops for their new students, and they also have an exciting addition that needs our support. The community in Yaoundé are working on an agricultural programme to promote food supply and self-sufficiency for the students and their formators. In addition to their academic studies, the students are raising and caring for livestock such as pigs, chickens, ducks, rabbits, and fish, creating a sustainable source of food for their community while also teaching and promoting valuable life skills that will have enormous benefit in their future missionary work.
Tending the soil
Care for Livestock
This year, the MSC community in Yaoundé are asking for our help in raising a total of €10,500. As well as providing laptops for new students, this will help the group to purchase and maintain essential equipment for their farming and agricultural programme, buying necessities such as protective work clothing and boots, farming tools such as shovels, hoes, buckets, cutting implements, and wheelbarrows, grain and seed, cleaning materials, and fuel.
From academic studies to agriculture, your support can help MSC students in Cameroon as their continue on their dedicated missionary journey to be on earth the heart of God.