The Tanga House project is run by members of the Society of African Missions (SMA) in cooperation with Polish Loreto Sisters and SMA lay missionaries.  It provides a safe home for Albino children in Tanzania – who because of their condition are often stigmatised and excluded.  They are sometimes killed or subjected to violence and mutilation due to a superstitious belief associated with witchcraft that albino body parts can bring wealth.

In this month, beginning with the Feast of All Saints and All Souls, we remember and pray for our family and friends who have died and gone before us to their eternal reward.

Novena to Our Lady of Knock: ending with the Annual SMA Pilgrimage to Knock – 17^th to 25^th May
Facebook Live Panel Review of Traficking in Persons 2024 Report: Organised by SMA OLA Justice Offices -June/July, subject to the release of the 2024 report.
Dromantine Summer Camps:  7th July to 2nd August.
Novena in honour of St Therese of the Child Jesus: 23 September to Ist October.
5th Conference on Intergenerational Climate Justice: Organised by SMA OLA Justice Offices – October 17^th.

The 17^th September, 2018 is a day that Fr Luigi Maccalli SMA will never forget. On that evening, a gang of armed mujahidin kidnapped him from the Mission, where he had lived and worked for eleven years, in the small village of Bomoanga, Niger.  

For almost two weeks he was taken by motorcycle across the border into Burkina Faso and then further on into the deserts of Mali.  This was the beginning of a long and difficult period of captivity, loneliness and suffering in the Sahara desert that lasted a total of 752 days.