On Saturday, February 29, 2020, 27 young men received the habit as novices in the International Novitiate of the Brothers of Charity in Nairobi.

After a week of spiritual guidance by Superior General Bro. René Stockman, 27 young men were received and accepted into the Congregation as novices. Their novitiate training will take two years, after which they will profess their first vows for a period of one year. This will be followed by renewals until the sixth year, when they can make their final-perpetual profession. In the meantime, most of them will have acquired further professional skills so that they will be involved as Brothers of Charity in various apostolic works.

The novices come from eight different countries: DR Congo, Rwanda, Burundi, Central African Republic, Tanzania, Malawi, Mozambique, India, and Papua New Guinea. We warmly welcome our novices and hope that during their novitiate training they will be able to gain a deeper insight into the charism of the Congregation and the life of the Brothers of Charity.

Source: https://brothersofcharity.org/