UMODZI is a project founded and supported among others by Judith Golooba, a member of the English-speaking Catholic community in Luxembourg, to support the education of orphans in her home country of Malawi.

The organisers are now busy making sure that all their students get funding to enable them to start college or university this coming September.

They have three students who have done well in their exams and have places in local universities in Malawi but do not yet have sponsors.

Can you help?

This is not about requesting money for a charity, but an appeal for individuals who can take care of a student and see them through their college or university programme, which lasts about 3 years (depending on the course).

The college/university fees amount to about €2300 per year – less than €200 per month. UMODZI would put you in direct contact with the student concerned.

To find out more, please contact Judith at judith.golooba@gmail.com.

Pope Francis will lead the World Meeting of Families in Ireland this week. A delegation from the Archdiocese of Luxembourg is participating – including a group from St Alphonse led by Fr Ed. Follow our progress each day on this dedicated page and feel free to share with us your thoughts, intentions or prayers.

Contact: fr.ed@pt.lu or costacoughlan@gmail.com

I need help to set up a website for the church of St Alphonse. It can be a simple site (WordPress blog site, similar to catholic.lu), but to differentiate the church from our English-speaking community. I receive calls from French, Luxembourgish and German speaking people who call me because our site is top of their search results for ‘St Alphonse, Luxembourg’.

I can create the content (which will not be much more than a homepage) and can find the translators to render the text into French/German/Luxembourgish.

I can also manage updates (there will be few — it’s simply to announce the Mass times of the church in other languages, advertise the contact details of the couvent St Alphonse, and deliver very occasional news updates on the Redemptorist community.

Thank you in anticipation,

Fr Ed

Man seeking employment — for details, please contact me.

Thanks,

Fr Ed