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Mission Sunday At St. Joan of Arc

On Sunday, July 12, 2010, Arm In Arm In Africa was the recipient of the Mission Sunday collection. This year marks the 10th anniversary of AIAIA’s work in South Africa. Rev. James Cassidy, the president of AIAIA, spoke from the heart about its mission in the townships of Cape Town and the rural area, Malungeni, near Umtata.

Each year a delegation brings medical supplies, hope and support for a country ravaged by the HIV/AIDS pandemic.

Over the past ten years due to the generosity of its benefactors, AIAIA been able to provide material support to our sisters and brothers in South Africa. For example, it has developed an

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emergency food distribution program which now distributes food in Malungeni to 85 families, 3 times a year, purchased a building to house the first hospice program in the townships in Cape Town, supplied an after school tutoring program for children and provided new housing for a single mother with HIV/AIDS.

As a result of the magnanimous contribution from the St. Joan of Arc congregation, AIAIA will be able to increase the number of families receiving the food distribution and to expand its food distribution to include families in another extremely poor area, Itipini, which is literally built on a landfill site. Over 500 food parcels can be purchased with the funds raised on Mission Sunday.

Thank you, from the bottom of our hearts.