Kagera Lent Appeal 2024
‘I was sick and you visited me’ (Matthew 25:36).
St Marylebone Parish Church is part of the worldwide Anglican Communion and in 2021 we began a growing friendship with the Diocese of Kagera in Tanzania, who, similarly, are involved with healthcare, healing, and education.
The purpose of our link is: Global church friendship, Mutual learning/synergy, Prayer, Sharing in abundance.
It was very good to welcome Canon Amon Jackson to St Marylebone last year to speak and Mthr Katy visited Kagera in February 2024, joining a party from the Diocese of St Edmundsbury and Ipswich. Kagera Link Lent Appeal.
This Lent we are holding an appeal for Murgwanza Hospital governed by the Anglican Diocese of Kagera.
The hospital, with a strongly Christian foundation, but open to all faiths, originated in 1932 as a dispensary established by CMS missionaries. It supports 400,000 people, and trains nurses and social workers on site. Half the villages of the local area don’t have any dispensaries and so have to travel to the hospital on foot or on motorbike. The hospital provides a number of services but are particularly hoping to:
Provide a dialysis machine, the nearest one being 250 miles away.
Provide tanks for harvesting rainwater
Recycling water
Install solar panels to provide affordable energy
Improve the labour suite
Install an incinerator for the safe disposal of body parts
Provide an ambulance
The new medical director is a dynamic, visionary person who has both a short and long term strategy and faith that the hospital can develop into a regional hospital with greatly improved facilities but poverty is severe in Tanzania and they would be very grateful for any support we could give this Lent. He has particularly asked for our prayers.
We are so fortunate with the standard of healthcare we have in this country.
Please give generously to this appeal. Thank you.
There are more photographs below.
