The Catholic Parish of Gumbo, in the archdiocese of Juba, is assisting 100 families through a micro project scheme to promote agriculture.
Parish Priest Dominic Parambil told SCR News that over 500 people are benefitting from the scheme that finances agriculture projects.He said people are taking agriculture very seriously.
Gumbo parish started in 1990, but the civil war and the Ugandan rebels of the Lord’s Resistance Army forced the people to take refuge in Juba.
The Salesians of Don Bosco re-opened the parish in 2007.
Fr. Dominic has many projects in his mind for the next three, four years: a secondary school, youth and vocational training centre, and the parish church.
Fr. Dominic said the Salesian Sisters are running the basic school and some Korean Sisters are on their way to open the clinic in the parish.
He added that he feels encouraged and very happy with the cooperation from Gumbo’s people.
Fr. Dominic made these statements at the end of the mass in honour of St. Vincent de Paul, Gumbo’s patron saint.