KENYA: AMECEA Pastoral Institute Gaba calls upon its benefactors to support initiative to end students’ accommodation problem
As the institute prepares to launch a year-long celebrations of its Golden Jubilee, on 21st October, 2017, among its major plans is to increase the students’ hostel in order to resolve the problem of accommodation.
According to the Institute’s Coordinator Rev. Dr. Joseph Ekomwa, the institute often faces the challenge of accommodating all students when dioceses and religious congregations sends students in abundance.
“There have been times in the past when we could not absorb all students due to lack of accommodation facilities and therefore had to send them back home. This has not been positive at all because when we did that, the Bishop or the Religious Superior who sent the students to us, are therefore forced to look elsewhere for alternatives and this dampens their confidence in the institution when it comes to considering future engagements,” Dr. Ekomwa explained.
Dr. Ekomwa said that, the credibility of AMECEA Pastoral Institute goes beyond the AMECEA Region, it boasts of Alumni from other English speaking West African Countries such as Nigeria and Ghana as well as some from Europe and America.
“Our Alumni records show that quite a number of pastoral agents from far away countries including Europe have benefited from the services offered here and we would like to maintain the same spirit; we are not limited to AMECEA Region only,” he said adding that there is no need for Bishops and Superiors of Religious Congregations from AMECEA countries as well as English Speaking African Countries sending their pastoral workers to Europe or America for Sabbatical and Renewal programs which they can affordably access at Gaba.
Another major activity the Institute plans to embark on as it launches its Golden Jubilee Year is to do step up awareness campaigns among the conferences in the region in order to raise funds for the improvement of the Institute programs.
The Institute targets pastoral workers who have been in the field for considerable amount of time and therefore needing spiritual renewal as well as relaxation and to rejuvenate physicaly. Dr. Ekomwa explain that the institute therefore needs to mobilize more funds in order to offer such pastoral workers services appropriate for such kind of renewal.
“We will be asking our sponsors in the sense of those sending us students and paying fees to consider now beefing up the numbers as well as making substantive contributions in order to make the institute a success,” he said.
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By Pamela Adinda, AMECEA Online News
