Catholic Social Action in Sierra Leone

The Trust of St Michael the Archangel (TSMA) has been contacted by the Sierra Leone Chesterton Centre, in Sub-Saharan Africa, with a hope of co-operation and funding.

Right: The proposed Chesterton Health Centre in Newton Villagein Sierra Leone

TSMA is minded to help this project because helping Africans become self-sufficient, improving local health care, encouraging full-term education, promoting co-operatives, agricultural training, developing communities and reinvigorating Africa through a vibrant Catholic Faith with all its socio-economic benefits, will help to take Africa back from the brink of war, famine, debt and suchlike.

TSMA, African Agriculture & Catholic Social Doctrine

The state of affairs in Africa has come to the attention of the world in the recent weeks due to the visit of the American president to the Continent and the G8 meeting in Italy where the problems of Africa were high on the agenda.

The Trust of St Michael the Archangel, in connection with a number of representatives of the civil society and political and religious world, is studying a new possibility to help the Continent to find a way (again) to progress.

One of the elements that the Trust is considering, which is essential in this quest, is the presence of missionaries all over the Continent which constitute a sensor for this enormous and troubled continent.

Italian supporters of the Trust have made contact with important food organizations and religious elements and is starting to explore the possibility of contacting African Governments whose record of administration is impeccable.

The project consists of the Trust liaising with religious organizations and international bodies that help agriculture and food distribution to create a model based on the Social Doctrine of the Church somewhere in Africa . A model that can then be copied anywhere in Africa.

More news on this endeavour to follow.