BACK FROM NTAMBU

Church of St. Andrew Kim, Ntambu

Yesterday afternoon, I came back from Ntambu, where I spent two weeks, giving a workshop to the catechists. Ntambu is a faraway place, out of the main road to Mwinilunga. It was like a forgotten place, until Fr. You, a Korean priest, came. He built a big and nice church. Then the sisters followed, and a nice hospital was built. And so Ntambu became an important place. It is indeed a nice place to live in. And I was happily surprised: you can see development taking place. People dress like in town. 

Most of the houses are covered with iron sheets; many of them are built with burnt bricks, and you can find plenty of big houses, seeing here and there the satellite dishes and the solar panels. When Fr. You arrived there, people where isolated and cut off from the rest of the province. He tried to provide transport, and people were very grateful for that. Now there are people with trucks offering transport for people and goods. It would be good to find the same effort in all rural areas of Zambia. The government must make an effort to provide essential infrastructures, like roads, and to guarantee a market for the local products, mainly maize.

The group of Catechists that took part in the workshop.

I was impressed as well by the commitment, the vitality and the youth of the catechists who took part in the workshop.