Sisters of the Child Jesus
The Sisters of the Child Jesus was founded in 1926 in the Diocese of Kasama to serve the poor of the Northern Province of Zambia, Africa. There are currently 145 Sisters serving in a wide variety of ministries.
Their motto is “Apostles to our own people”. This they carry out with an amazing amount of energy, faithfulness and great joy, even though they are often painfully short of adequate resources.
Their Generalate (the headquarters) is in Kasama, a city of some 200,000, where a small number of Sisters maintain residence. From there they administer all their ministries as well as staff Tetekela, a day care center serving 300 orphans who are without adequate food, shelter or education.
A 30 minute drive west of Kasama is Chilubula, the site of the original Mother House, now the Novitiate training center, as well as St. Fideles Hospital, St. Theresa Girls Secondary School (a residential school with 409 students) and the Demonstration Farm.
Several hours south (217 km) of Kasama is Mpika, the site of St. Theresa basic school (preschool to grade 7) and also the Mpima Seminary (the four sisters living and working there introduce the seminarians to home care for the elderly and HIV/AIDS patients, a powerful pastoral training event). An additional few km south is the Chilonga Hospital and School of Nursing and Midwifery where 12 Sisters are on staff.
Going north from Kasama a couple hundred km is Mbala where several Sisters do pastoral work and work in the government hospital there. Then up to the far northern border of Zambia at the shores of Lake Tanganyika in Mpulungu, you find the site of the Stella Maris Convent School with 428 students.
70 km northwest of Kasama is Kapatu, site of the Postulant training house with 11 in their beginning two years. Across the river is Lucena, a 400 hectare farm where two sisters are working agricultural miracles.
Another 96 km northwest is Mporokoso, site of a School for the Visually Impaired with 62 students and 6 Sisters.
Finally, traveling west almost to the western border of Zambia is Kawambwa where there is the Kacema Musuma Home caring for 30 youngsters and another School for the Visually Impaired.
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