Since 1937, when our first North American Brothers arrived in Lesotho and over the years, through the development of the nascent districts of Zambia in Zimbabwe, and now with the addition of Kenya, Uganda, and Zambia, our Brothers have attempted to help form what is today the Province of Eastern and Southern Africa. The dreams of the earliest of foundations have become the reality of independence with the Institute.

Br. Raymond F. Reinsant, SC

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Twinning
Bishop Guertin High School twins with  Rutenga High School

Bishop Guertin High School, Nashua, New Hampshire, USA, twins with Rutenga High School, Rutenga, Zimbabwe. Students have recently just begun to help students at St. Francis in Malole.

The philosophy of Bishop Guertin regarding twinning is expressed this way:

The challenge of solidarity is that it is not just about raising funds, or giving money, but about the challenge to really come to know each other; to find ways for students to make contact and understand a little bit more about what their counterparts, students in another Brothers of the Sacred Heart school elsewhere in the world, experience as their life. It is a mutual activity.

For a relatively small amount of money, $100 US per year, a young person can be supported by the Brothers and lay people who serve at Rutenga High School. With that education, they have more hope for the future for them and their families. And this is the hope that we seek to nurture.

Hopefully through this experience, we can come to know another people, in another place, and recognize all that they have to offer us, in their culture, their perspective on the world, their understanding of nature, their great desire for education...