Fr Jock’s annual Sponsored Slim – this year with any sponsorship generosity going to the Legho

Young Christian Communities in Tanzania and the Steka Skills Workshops in Malawi - has received an

impetus this year from an incident that happened during the pilgrims’ three days spent on the island of Zanzibar between the visits to Legho and Blantyre:

Fr Jock writes:‘We had set off at 4am from Mike Knox’s Sacred Heart Centre in Mweka and arrived, exhausted, at 11am at our hotel in remote Mukunduchi: although the hotel was fairly basic (have you ever watched a rat fight on the beams above you as you have your evening meal..?), the one exception was the rather grand wooden four poster bed in each room….I unpacked, showered, and lay on my rather high bed looking forward to a long sleep, but it was a bit warm so I got off the bed and put on the fan…I then rather energetically jumped back onto the bed thinking ‘at last’ – only to hear a loud crack and find myself rather alarmingly crashing to the ground as the bed collapsed earthquake-like (photos of the remains will be posted on our parish Facebook Page this week…).

It immediately became clear to me that the Lenten slim this year could not be avoided – with an added bonus being that anything that benefited either the Legho Communities or the Steka Skills Workshops (to help the home children learn a trade) would be more than worthwhile…’