Church Missionary Society
Sir, —I read in this morning’s issue that the church in Tanzania has an urgent need for $6OOO to build a creche so that children could be attended to while their mothers equip themselves for their role as ministers' wives. If the conditions in underdeveloped countries are as I have been led to believe, the church there could do well to re-examine priorities.—Yours, N. B. LINDLEY. October 4,1969. [The Bishop of Victoria Nyanza, Tanzania (the Rt Rev. M. L. Wiggins), who is visiting Christchurch, replies: “In Tanzania women are probably the most needy group in the population. In earlier days education passed most of them by. A tragic rate of child mortality could be greatly reduced by a little more health teaching; so it is extremely important that the wives of trainees for the Christian ministry should be trained to become leaders among their fellow-women. A theological college should, therefore, as a matter of priority, have a centre where children can be cared for and the mothers trained. The centre is not in my own diocese.”]
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Press, Volume CIX, Issue 32117, 13 October 1969, Page 12
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