|
 The
indigenous dark haired, black eyed Quichua people
live between ten and fourteen thousand feet above sea
level in the mountains of Ecuador. They are exceptionally poor peasant
farmers, many of them live with their families in one room ‘chozas’ with
no water, electricity or even windows. As the Catholic Missionaries
gradually departed it became very obvious to the then Bishop that they
must train their own priests and Bishop Victor Corral went to Europe
(cap in hand) to ask for help. You i.e. SPICMA helped towards making it
possible and in 1999 The Good Shepherd Seminary welcomed 15 poorly
educated peasant farmers as students who wanted to become priests. So
far 12 Students have been ordained and currently there are 13
Seminarians. The Diocese is still incredibly poor and cannot exist
without help. One way we can help them is to fund several greenhouses to
enable food to be produced both for consumption and for income to make
the Seminary more economically independent. Can you please help?
You can make an
OnLine donation through
Charity
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site managed by the co-op bank.
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