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Fr. Paschal provided these pictures showing the making of the benches for the chapel. It's just a good thing that the school meanwhile has electricity!

Fr. Paschal provided some pictures of the finished chapel, which is finally finished! The chapel will be the spiritual center of the seminary. But before that, it still has to be equipped with furniture.

Fr. Paschal Kipenye has provided new pictures showing that the chapel construction project is nearing completion!

On Nov 18 2020, seminary director Fr. Paschal Kipenye send the following pictures, showing the progress of the chapel building

School director Fr. Paschal informed us that the school opened again on June 29, 2020, and classrooms activites resumed on June 30. The seminary is taking precautions to deal with the Covid 19 challenges. 

Since the salaries had to be paid during the school closure, part of the funds for the construction projects were used for this purpose in agreement with Beckhoff. 

The following is an excerpt from the report that Seminary Director Fr Paschal Kipenye sent today:

Greetings from Mpandandogo. I would like to say thanks very much to the funds sent to the Seminary. I am happy to inform you that the works are in good progress.

It is very sad that up to the moment all school in Tanzania are closed! It is a very disturbing moment to the curriculum development as well as economic progress in national level up to an individual level.

As a Seminary, let me be open: we are facing a financial crisis! We have sent home almost all of our workers! The fact is almost 70% of our daily undertaking in the school depends on school fees! The school was closed in the beginning of the first quarter while the majority of the students were in the process of paying school fees; So you can imagine our situation.

We really appreciate what the company is doing for us, it is doing a lot! But in this particular situation may I appeal on the behalf of the community to beg for financial assistance to run the school; sincerely we are facing the problem of paying the salaries to our workers since last month! Indeed our workers are very understanding and they are coping to realize the situation, but I'm afraid we will lose the best workers as soon as they decide to go back to work in agriculture.