The Congregation: The Late Bishop Alfred Lanctot -W. F (White Fathers) today, Missionaries of Africa from Canada founded the Congregation of Franciscan Sisters of St. Bernadette in 1958 in Tanzania, East Africa. The Congregation works in the steps of the founder, which is to preach the Good News to all people mostly in Tanzania and in the USA by teaching and doing different activities. Currently, the congregation has 220 professed members.  

The Spirit and Charisma: We live the Franciscan spirit by loving and accepting all God’s people as gifts. We are close to people and participate according to the sign of time by rendering pastoral and social services especially in taking care of the orphans, the sick in hospitals, HIV/ADIS victims, refugees, women groups, children formation, youth, caring for disabled, lepers, widows, widowers and teaching in schools.  

Mission Appeal: At present, our community is facing one of the greatest challenges which is lack of funds for constructing the dining room for underprivileged children whom we serve at St. Bonaventure English Medium School. Currently, our children are still using the temporal dining room, which is not enough for them consequently they cannot enjoy their meals as needed.  It is for this reason that we would like to ask you today to be part of this effort in eradicating this problem.  We believe that this effort and your support will help us to build the permanent dining room so that children could fully relax and enjoy their meals. In additional, taking meals in good environment will enable them to assimilate nutrition which will build them boldly and intellectually, so that they can achieve their academical goals and be able to carry on their own lives in the future.  We would like to invite you to be generous and support us as we try to give hope to the hopeless and power to the powerless. Our mission is support and serve our children by building the permanent dining for them. We cannot accomplish our goal without generous contributions from people like you. We thank you in advance for your anticipated generosity which is very highly appreciated.   We assured you our humble prayers.