Cheperaria, Kenya

From Cloyne to Chepareria

1984

Fr. Michael Dillon, SPS, went to the Sisters of Mercy, Cloyne Diocese, Ireland for sisters to help in the newly established self help Chepareria Girls Secondary School. Pioneers Srs. Mary Harnett, Peter Hegarty and Thesesa Burke arrived in Chepareria on 15 December 1984. Mary Harnett had previously worked in Huruma mobile clinic, Njoro. She started Primary School Health Care program at Chepareria. Peter Hegarty began her catechetical visits to Chepareria girls and to the surrounding primary schools, while Theresa Burke taught in Chepareria Girls. In 1989 Peter Hegarty got a small Chapel built where, students, catechists, religious education awareness program participants and other small groups can attend Mass and prayers in a homely atmosphere.  In 1996, Peter started St. Michael’s Nursery School, initially with seven pupils, but that number soon increased to over ninety. In 2000, Sr. Veronica Quigley opened Mercy Center where the local women and young girls are taught income- generating skills of cooking, knitting, dressmaking. In 2005, Sr. Peter Hegarty produced, before retiring to Ireland, ‘A Pastoral Catechism for Teachers’, for use in Kitale Diocese. Currently the two sisters at Chepareria, Veronica Quigley and Teresia Njoroge, are engaged in Mercy Centre and  the  Nursery school respectively.

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CLOYNE  DIOCESE   (Kitale Diocese) :   1984  –  TO DATE

1. Chepareria  1984  –  to date 

 Educational :  St. Cecelia’s Secondary School, Chepareria  1985 – to date

                            Catechetics   –  1985 –  2005

                            St. Michael’s Nursery School  1996 –                           

                            Mercy Vocational Centre   2000  –  to date

                           Lecturer – Kibabii University, Bungoma   (Attached to Chepareria)

Medical :          Primary School Health Care Programme  1995 –  1988