Karema plan gets under way

Building a village on Lake Tanganyika
THE plan to build a catechists' village for Bishop Msakila of Karema on the shores of Lake Tanganyika is beginning to take definite shape. The Catholic Agricultural Youth of Austria have so far collected over 0,000 towards the project—enough to build half the 30 houses planned for the village.
This "Karema project" is the Austrian gift for the first international congress of Catholic Agricultural Youth taking place at Lourdes from May 27 to 29.
STUDYING
The future head of the village is at present studying for the priesthood in Rome. He will be ordained in December, and afterwards he will go on to Austria for further training for his duties,
His "right hand", Donald Mpulo, is already in Austria studying political and social questions and also the working methods of Catholic Action and Catholic youth organisations.
Another part of the programme involves the sending of several Austrian girls out to Tanganyika to train the catechists' wives in housekeeping, child-care, and nursing. One teacher and one young worker have already volunteered to go out for two years for this purpose, which will also involve building a "domestic science" school in the village.
Attached to the village will be an agricultural school which, besides training the catechists in upto-date farming methods, will also help to provide food for the village.
The total cost of all these projects amounts to about £75,000a sum which the Austrian young people are quite confident of raising. After all, recently they bought an aeroplane for New Guinea's "flying bishop"—Bishop Arkfeld, S.V.D., Vicar Apostolic of Wewak.
Karema is the most strongly Catholic diocese of Tanganyika, with nearly 70 per cent of the total population being Catbolic. Until recently it was ruled by Penarth born Bishop Holmes
Siedle, W.F., who has now moved north to Kigoma to evangelise the Babe. Its new bishop, Mgr. Charles Msakila, was consecrated by Pope John in December, 1958, and afterwards came to this country to recruit lay helpers for his diocese.