Kimbilio Program in Morogoro

Kimbilio Program has started for Women 's shelter and Education Center. Why? Ruth Mmari saw as working for women and children in Morogoro Evangelical Lutheran Church, many drawbacks and miseries among women due to old traditions like female circumcisions, family violence, subjugations, and other mishandling and inhuman behaviors. It is also difficult for girls to go to the school, because they are needed for household-work. With the support of Finnish Lempäälä congregation and YMCA Kimbilio Program was able to start and Ruth Mmari could see her dream come true.

Lempäälä YMCA promised to build a Ukumbi (community hall), a house for a guard, one Kimbilio shelter, a house for a housekeeper. So Kimbilio program involves a complex of buildings. The vision started broadening and the whole education center is planned to be built. Lempäälä congregation promised to support Kimbilio Program for three years. Ruth Mmari and Irja Aro-Heinilä in next foto.

Jakob Moreto, Bishop for Morogoro Diocese, visited Lempäälä congregation in autumn 2012 and provided all his support for Kimbilio Program. This program has started from the needs of local people living in Morogoro and Ruth Mmari has been their voice. Kimbilio program is local people's effort and they have collected fundings for the drawings and calculations of buildings in Morogoro Diocese and acquired building materials, they have discussed and communicated about this program in many situations. This Kimbilio program is strongly based on local needs and opinions, local people are going to be used for building Kimbilio complex of houses, and local material and knowledge are also going to be used whenever possible.

The marriage couple Aro-Heinilä Irja and Veikko are responsible for communication in Finland and both of them are speaking Swahili. Veikko has experiences of constructions of buildings like churches and water systems in Kenya and Tanzania.