This video is a presentation about the nature of mission and the work of the Comboni Missionaries and their commitment to peace, justice, human rights and human promotion. 

The first contact I had with the  Comboni Missionaries was through their magazine. Eventually they came to my Parish. I was struck by the way they work, the way they relate with the people, those who are very poor, weak, oppressed.

My Name is Vanderlei, I am from the South of Brazil. As a seminarian I was invited by the Comboni missionaries to visit a mission in the North of Brazil 4,000  km. away from my home place.

The first Comboni Missionaries to come in 1964 to the Sidamo area in Ethiopia and to write the first Sidamo grammar book.

As a little boy a grew next to a Comboni Missionaries house in Viseu, in Portugal. I felt a desire to become also a Comboni missionary mainly as a motivation to help the poor, work for justice and peace in the world and in solidarity with the needy.

I grew up in a farm in the Missouri. As a  Comboni Missionary the outstanding experience  I had was the one in a  refugee camp. For 3 years I lived in a hut and truly it was the pick experience of my life.

I was 20 years old when I decided to join the  Comboni Missionaries. I am now in Southern Sudan Kajo Kaji county. In the year 2000 we started an educational project of a college.

I worked in Southern Sudan for nine years during the civil war. this made the missionary experience very tough but I was with the people.

One of the aspect of the work of the Comboni Missionaries is true evangelisation that is  integral human promotion and teaching the skills that allow the people to live with dignity. Before being a missionary I was working in my country as an architect.

I have being studying business management I have been working in the marketing field for more then ten years. I come from Aachen in Germany at first I did not know the Comboni Missionaries.

As a missionary you are going to meet people and people will tell you what they are and you will tell them who you are. Together you grow and together you reach the goal.

St. Daniel Comboni has been the inspiration of my life from the very beginning. When he knew the situation of Africa he decided to prepare himself for the task, learning Arabic studying medicine to come and serve the people in Africa.

My missionary life has been quite long. I was in Ethiopia for the first time 32 years ago. I work among the Humus at the border with Sudan who are very much marginalised.

About St. Daniel Comboni, I was struck by his zeal in his life. I was assisting the parish priest in Raja, Sudan. There were many lessons I learned from the people especially their resilience in spite of the difficulty in which they were living.

I started with a youth group here in Quito. By chance I met in a parish the  Comboni Missionaries. I had experiences in Esmeralda and after my study I asked what to do to answer my missionary call.

My missionary vocation started in my town by meeting with immigrants coming and asking for some help. When I came to Ethiopia was difficult to understand the way people were talking but I discovered that they had a great culture behind them.

I am a Ugandan Comboni Missionaries. I went for my first assignment to Togo. I met someone who was a refugee from Sudan and became a good friend of mine. What he told me of his country challenged me.

As a child I never taught to become  a Comboni Missionaries.  I was a diocesan seminarian, then on 3rd Dec 1957 one Comboni missionary came to tell us about St. Francis Xavier.  From that day I could not stop thinking about Africa.