outreach

Christoph Koch, Germany

Applied after secondary school, and made his preparation with the Comboni and then worked at Kivuli Center in Nairobi, Kenya with Fr. Kizito. Worked with street children for 14 months. After his return, he asked for a chance to join the preparation team. He has been working in it by giving his own experience reports and presentations to schools and parishes. Many who return want to be active with the Comboni. It is very important to connect with returned CLMs.

Birgit Schardt, Germany

Met the Comboni in 1995, and was prepared to join in 1996 to go to Kisumu in Kenya. There the work was with street children for six months, but not with the Comboni. She is a nursery school teacher. She looked for another experience and worked for 2 years in Nairobi at Nyumbani, an orphanage for HIV children run by a Jesuit. She returned to Germany in 2002 and tried to remain connected to the Comboni Missionaries. She helps to prepare new CLMs, and involves former CLMs to prepare new ones.

Barbara Ludewig Polanco, Germany

One of the 115 Lay Missionaries sent to various Countries of Africa and Latin America by the Comboni of Germany as part of the MaZ (Missionarin Auf Zeit ). It means a lay person, man or woman, who takes up a missionary commitment in a mission country for a certain period of time.