After the first church council which took place in Nicaea, Turkey in the year 325 AD and until 1582, Easter was calculated according to the Julian calendar. The Gregorian calendar, named after Pope Gregory XIII was an adaptation of the Julian calendar and today remains valid for the entire Christian world. All the events that took place before 15th...

And the first work action took place last Saturday, because we didn’t want to work on school days. We really enjoyed doing farm work. Hoes were working all over the place. The entire ground was dug up and we planted cassava, beans, carrots, peppers, and peanuts... well, just about everything we needed in order to provide our children...

I have to brag a little bit and say that we have 10,936 titles! The genres are various – religious books, all sorts of encyclopaedias, textbooks, research books, fiction and non-fiction. There are also about 600 books of technical literature which will come in handy for the students of our vocational school, because they will be able to find...

For certain, language was the biggest obstacle - most of them speak only Kinyarwanda, and the translation from English and French into that language is not easy, especially the technical terms. After few days, everybody became accustomed to each other, and teachers felt free enough to ask advice on how to present their lessons...

There is always a lot of work to be done in CFJ Padri Vjeko, but our volunteers say that they are mixing business with pleasure. “It’s wonderful to be able to help the missionaries, those who put their lives in service of others. It’s wonderful to see the smiles on children’s faces. It’s wonderful to take a walk through the village and get to know their customs...

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