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Book Review

A review of the Jilek-Aall Biography in the Ormsby Review

  • Posted on January 20, 2021January 20, 2021
  • by admin

Love affair with Africa January 11, 2021January 11, 2021 Moon Madness: Dr. Louise Aall, Sixty Years of Healing in Africa by Alan Twigg Vancouver: Ronsdale Books, 2019 $21.95 / 9781553805939 Reviewed by Valerie Green *…

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Schooling

Why we need to build a school in Luhombero

  • Posted on August 28, 2020September 9, 2020
  • by admin

In this video, Father Placid explains why they need to build the three room school house in Luhombero. It will be called the Yosef Wosk School, named for a wonderful donor. Most schools are in…

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Food Security

Because of improved irrigation, agriculture is improved in the Village

  • Posted on August 25, 2020August 28, 2020
  • by admin

Because of your donations, Placid has been able to install improved irrigation. Now they can plant a lot of maize (corn), melons, tomatoes and more. And they are even starting to raise pigs. There is…

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Luhombero Church

Thank you for the car!

  • Posted on August 20, 2020September 1, 2020
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Father Placid thanks everyone for the donation of money that allowed him to purchase a new car (truck). With it, he can transport patients to hospital, get their spare produce to the market town and…

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Crops

Working in the fields

  • Posted on June 7, 2019June 7, 2019
  • by admin

Here is brief video of villagers helping with the harvest. In this video, they are growing seedlings that will be transplanted later, into the fields. In this video, Father Placid shows us the fields and…

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Crops

Father Placid Helping Hoe the Maize Field

  • Posted on April 8, 2019April 16, 2019
  • by admin

In this video, we see father placid and a group of his parishioners hoeing the maize, singing and laughing.

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Schooling

Placid thanks Michael Audain, Yosef Wosk, Alan Twigg and All Donors

  • Posted on November 12, 2018November 12, 2018
  • by admin

Father Placid and the people of Luhombero are so deeply grateful for the incredible generosity of Canadians that is making their lives so much richer and more sustainable. They now have a village social hall,…

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Crops

We are growing Mangoes!

  • Posted on May 9, 2018
  • by admin

Just a brief update. Thanks to the generosity of many, Placid’s food-growing plans are going great guns. They are now cultivating mangoes!  

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Irrigation

A Visit to Luhombero in January, 2018

  • Posted on February 4, 2018September 15, 2019
  • by admin

Who do you think of when you think of a Renaissance man (or woman)? Leonardo da Vinci? Dude who painted the Mona Lisa and harnessed solar energy 450 years before green energy was cool. Ben…

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Bee Keeping

Beekeeping comes to Luhombero

  • Posted on January 28, 2018January 28, 2018
  • by admin

Donations from readers of the literary newspaper BC BookWorld in Vancouver, Canada, continue to make a huge difference to the lives of people in the remote village of Luhombero. Empowered to purchase extensive irrigation equipment,…

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