Consolata Missionaries 1028
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MCP Appeal 2026 will be at the following parishes:
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- Holy Cross Church (Moorpark): August 8-9
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- Holy Trinity Church (Los Angeles): August 22-23
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- Holy Cross Church (Moorpark): August 8-9
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About Us
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Officially we are called Institute of the Consolata for Foreign Missions (IMC), founded in Turin, Italy in 1901 by St. Joseph Allamano. Our charism is consolation, (“ console console my people, says the Lord” Is. 40: 1); our mission is mission ad gentes following Jesus’ mandate (Go to the whole world and preach the Good News” Mk 16:15). We also have a female branch called Consolata Missionary Sisters, founded in 1910 by the same Founder.
Together with the Consolata Sisters, we are present in the following continents: In Africa: Angola, Democratic Republic of Congo, Ethiopia, Guinea Bissau, Ivory Coast, Kenya, Liberia, Madagascar Mozambique, South Africa, Tanzania, and Uganda. In the Americas: Argentina, Brazil, Canada, Colombia, Ecuador, Mexico, Peru, USA (San Bernardino Diocese-California, and Metuchen Diocece, New Jersey), and Venezuela. In Europe: Great Britain, Italy, Poland, Portugal, Spain. In Asia: Kazakhstan, Kyrgystan, South Korea, Mongolia, Taiwan. Our generalate is in Rome.
Our mission is evangelization, especially among among those who don’t know Jesus yet and evangelization among indigenous communities of South America, especially the Amazon Rain Forest. We are also present in the existential peripheries, marginalized communities, the immigrants and the most needy. We do interreligious dialogue with different faith communities of the world. We also carry out reconciliation processes among communities that have suffered war and conflict.
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The Water ProjectIn Uganda, and in other parts of Africa, the Consolata Missionaries we have a water project. Many people especially children die of water-born diseases because of drinking contaminated water. Women and children walk long distances in search of water. Children at school, have to interrupt classes to go to the pond to look for water for the cook to prepare them food. When they go back home tired after
school, they have to go with mom to look for water.
This project intends to give fresh clean water to the nomadic desert people of Eastern Uganda and
western Kenya. During long droughts people, animals and crops die because of lack of clean water. More to that, communities invade their neighbors to fight for water, pasture and animals. The raiders come with guns, machetes, stones etc to steal from their neighbors. A lot of people die in these raids.
Our intention is to build enough wells along the Uganda-Kenya border, among the Karimajong and
Turkana peoples, to facilitate dialogue and reconciliation among these tribes tribes. If we build several wells, then the people will have enough water such that they won’t have the need to fight. More to that, instead of both tribes coming to the border to fight, they will send their wives and children to fetch water, and when they meet, they will make friends with their neighbors. Ours, are wells for dialogue and reconciliations.
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Food, medicine and education for poor familiesMany families in drought-stricken areas suffer from hunger and preventable diseases. Our mission is not only to help these families to buy food and medicine, facilitate them to grow enough food that can make them self-sufficient. We also help poor families to pay school fees for their children.
The funds will be used to pay for the equipment for drilling water wells so as to make clean drinking water to the rural communities, schools, Churches, and schools. They will also be used to provide food to poor families and schools. The funds will help to bring a solution to water problems.
The types of wells we construct are solar-powered. The drilling, the buying of tanks, pipes, solar pumps and panels and the transport cost around $20,000. The good thing is that, since we use solar system, people are saved from paying the monthly electricity bills. We also buy food, medicine and pay fees for poor children.
Those who will directly benefit from these funds are rural communities, schools, Churches, hospitals and in Uganda. The estimated number of direct beneficiaries of the whole project is 50,000 people.
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What we have achieved so far
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In the communities where we have done this project, a lot of positive change has been made. This project has mitigated the water challenges and its effects in the communities. Children and adults are no longer dying of water-born diseases in the places where these wells were drilled. People are happier, children have improved their academic standard and creativity. Mothers and children are no longer walking long distances, under the burning sun, looking for water.
Thank you for your generosity and willingness to serve God's people in Africa.
- Fr. Peter Ssekajugo, IMC
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Support the Consolata Missionaries #1028
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You can support the Consolata Missionaries #1028 through your prayers and monetary donation by making a check payable to THE SOCIETY FOR THE PROPAGATION OF THE FAITH, 4311 Wilshire Blvd 2nd Fl., Los Angeles CA 90010, memo #1028. You may also donate online by clicking the donate button. When making an online donation, reference #1028 in the Memo box. Your donation is tax-deductible as allowed by law.
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