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Dushanbe (Agenzia Fides) - The Sisters of Mother Teresa, the Missionaries of Charity have opened a new professional training centre for girls in Tajikistan, a mainly Muslim country. The community, two Indian sisters, one African from Kenya and one European from Poland, care for the sick, the terminally ill, the marginalised and the orphans, they visit families in difficulty and the bedridden sick, taking food, medicine and material and spiritual assistance.
The latest enterprise of the Missionaries of Charity to promote economic and social development in Tajikistan is a Centre which offers girls free courses in general sewing, clothes making, embroidery etc. With an occupation the girls will have a better future.
The courses are given in a room equipped with sewing machines and 11 girls aged 15 to 18 have enrolled for the course. The girls, all Muslims, come from far away. During the week they live at the Mission Centre and go home at the weekend.
“We wanted our local Catholic girls to take the course but they are all busy with their studies this year” the religious said. The sisters have made the Muslim girls very welcome in a spirit of dialogue, cooperation and friendship with the respective families deeply appreciative of the service offered by the Catholic missionaries. “The girls are enthusiastic and good learners. Many have been unable to complete their studies and would have no opportunity to learn a job” the Sisters say. “During the lessons we do not speak explicitly of Jesus, but our service is a witness and a message of Christ’s love for all men and women”. (PA) (Agenzia Fides 5/12/2006 righe 27 parole 278)
