Cameroon orphanage founder to speak at Redeemer, Morristown

From New Jersey-

Sister Jane Mankaa, founder of the Good Shepherd Home in Cameroon, will preach at the 8 and 10:30 a.m. services and lead the 9 a.m. adult forum on Sunday at the Episcopal Church of the Redeemer, 36 South St., Morristown.

Mankaa will speak about the orphanage, which houses more than 100 children and serves many more in the larger community, and will share her plans to create a clinic to address the health needs of the children in the village. The clinic will be named after a deceased parishioner, Roberto Rovere, who was one of the first at Redeemer to support its partnership with the Good Shepherd Home.

The Good Shepherd Home for Children is located in the North West Province of Cameroon, an area in West Africa where an estimated 50,000 children are orphaned. Sr. Jane never turns a child away, and no child is placed for adoption. The children live in a loving family environment with a hundred brothers and sisters.

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Nun's struggles helping Cameroon orphans get focus in Milford gallery

From The Diocese of Bethlehem-

Babies often arrive in taxis at the Good Shepherd Home for Orphans in Cameroon these days, sent by relatives or by anyone who finds them.

But the boy who sparked the idea for the orphanage was found sleeping on the street in Yaounde, Cameroon's capital by Sister Jane Mankaa. She was recently at the Artery Gallery in Milford for a gathering to celebrate a book about her founding of the orphanage — "I Am That Child" by Elizabeth Geitz.

The author is an associate priest at Good Shepherd Episcopal Church in Milford. When Mankaa talked to the homeless boy and several others in similar straits, she found they were alone after their parents died of AIDS. Relatives had fed them meagerly and beat them. At the time she was an Episcopalian contemplative nun, and gathering funds to start an orphanage was challenging, she says, as many worried about corruption in Africa. But she persisted. The orphanage that Mankaa began in 2003 is now self-sustaining, guided to success by several failures, which is detailed in Geitz's book.

Geitz was living in Summit, N.J., when Mankaa arrived in nearby Mendham in 2000. Mankaa came from Cameroon to study to become an Anglican nun at the Community of St. John the Baptist. She had arrived with $25 and a wealth of exuberance that Geitz found compelling.

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Clergyman decries rise in political turmoil in Africa

From Ghana-

A clergyman has expressed worry about recent political crises, resulting in widespread loss of lives and property in some African countries, including Cote d’ Ivoire, Nigeria and Libya.

The Right Reverend Thomas Dibo Elango, Bishop of the Anglican Diocese of Cameroon, said the situation was unhelpful to the image of the continent, and appealed to all factions in political conflicts to allow calm to prevail.

Rt. Rev. Elango, who was delivering the sermon at the Episcopal Ordination and Consecration of Rev. Canon Dr Cyril Ben Smith, Suffragan Bishop of the Kumasi Anglican Church, at the Saint Cyprian Cathedral, reminded African leaders that peace and unity were crucial to progress.
He also asked them to employ dialogue in settling their political differences and refrain from violence and intimidation.

Rt. Rev. Elango condemned alcoholism, prostitution, drug abuse, teenage pregnancy, and sexual promiscuity that results in the spread of HIV/AIDS.
He tasked the church to intensify its evangelism and moral campaign to help transform society.

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