The Diocese of Nkongsamba

I would like to extend my thanks for the donation we received recently. We planned on buying a computer for the formation house, and the gift should help us in training novices in the use of today's means of communications, in addition to providing a source for research - much needed in a place where it is difficult to gain access to books and documents.

The novitiate is a new house, built in 2004 - but is by no means fully equipped. In the future, the seminary would like to have the ability to equip the novitiate with musical instruments, such as a guitar and an electric organ, but surely not this year.

"We are very grateful for your help and for you concern in what we are doing here." - Maitresse Pascale Bouliou

The Diocese of Yaounde

Congregation of the Brothers of St. John

The funds raised for this diocese helped to reduce the cost of what was spent everyday on novices, which could average about €400 per month each. Next year, there will be 10-18 novices entering this seminary.

"We are grateful and thank you for the help you give us each year to support the training of our novices. I assure you of my prayers and the prayers of my brother novices." - Father Jovien-Andréa

Daughters of Charity

This subsidy was seen as a great help for this particular congregation, especially for the training of novices. In Cameroon, to reduce costs, many congregations have jointly put together courses that are important - even indispensible - to the formation of seminarians. Even so, this congregation found it very difficult to finance these courses because of the economic situation of countries that do not allow them to have enough funds to fully administer the training of their new members.

"Recognizing all your great effort to help us though, I thank you with all our hearts and my prayers remain united with yours" - Sister Concepción Vicuña

Daughters of the Sacred Heart of Jesus

Our community here in Yaounde and the efficient running of the Congregation, forces us to have a very small number of sisters. So this is a community specifically for the training of the novitiate. It is a community that is characterised by internationalism and cultural diversity. This represents a challenge for us. However, beyond the training of future religious with the specific programme regarding the apostolic life, we lead a group called "Friends of Verzeri". Composed of children from the community, there is on average 75 children aged between 3 and 14 years old that are divided into three groups. The purpose of this organisation is to be a support for the moral and spiritual training for the children.

The above provides a brief description of the activities of the community of the Novitiate of the Sisters and Daughters of the Sacred Heard of Jesus. Again, we thank you and we will carry you in our humble prayers. Please accept out kindest regards. 

Missionaries of the Holy Family Girls

"I am Spanish and have been living here in Cameroon for seven years. I have five novices in the Congregation of the Holy Spirit Seminary. The help we receive is a great support for the training and maintenance of the seminary. The help we receive can pay for the course of an inter-novitiate and can help with transportation. I thank you for all the opportunities this year not only to novices of my congregation, but to other young people around the world who benefit from your support."- Bienvenida Umpiérrez Chacón. 

Apostolic Sisters of St. John

The novitiate house of the Apostolic Sisters of St. John was founded in 2009 in Cameroon and currently teaches novices from neighbouring Togo, the Ivory Coast and Cameroon. They would like to express their profound gratitude for the recent donation they received to maintain their continuing efforts to teach here. Following the example of St. Dominic, the community has chosen to be dependent solely on charitable donations.

Our benefactors are always in the heart of our prayers and so please transmit to our donators that they are assured of the fervent prayer of our novices.

Sister Mary Cox, an Irish sister from Co. Clare, had the joy of translating this letter of thanks.