Association of the
Friends of Ifakara
Parish Partnership

Help towards Self-Help – a Tyrolese Project in Central Africa

The Association of the Friends of Ifakara – Parish Partnership is trying to build up a genuine partnership between the Seelsorgeräume Zams – Zammerberg – Schönwies and Pius – Neu Rum – Rum and the parish of Ifakara. We want to assist people experiencing concretely how our faith makes us brothers and sisters across continents and fostering personal contacts.

This parntership should be profitable to both sides. We catholics living in Tyrolese parishes, have much to gain by learning from the priceless value of the vivid and merry way of which Ifakareans live their church-services. On the other side our assiciation may assist training young Ifakareans by taking over a good part of the wages of cathechets, thus helping to finance improvening the infrastructure or assisting without much redtape in individual cases of need – always in close cooperation with those locally responsible.

The project was started at Ifakara in the South East of Tansinia in 1953 by Swiss Capuchins along with Dr. Karl Schöpf of Zams has been taken over by two associations.

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