Who the Society stands with
The Kachi Kohli are a tribal people of Sindh, in southern Pakistan, many of them held for generations in bonded labour, with little access to land, schooling, or a voice. Mill Hill missionaries have lived among them, learned their situation, and worked to open a way out that begins, as it so often does, with a child being taught to read.
In the North-West of Cameroon, the communities of the Anglophone regions have lived through years of armed conflict that has emptied villages, closed schools, and scattered families. The Society has not left. Its missionaries have stayed through the worst of it, keeping some form of schooling alive and standing with the women and families the violence has fallen on hardest.
In Sudan and South Sudan, the Society’s presence reaches back across decades of war and upheaval. The people there have endured what few of us can imagine, and the Society’s record with them is one of staying: of being there before the crisis, through it, and after the world’s attention has moved on.
These are three among many, but they tell you the kind of place the Society goes, and the kind of company it keeps.
Why the Society goes to them
The Society puts it plainly in its own words: by preference, it goes where the need is greatest, to the people most abandoned and poorest in the means of grace. It is a deliberate choice, made again and again over a hundred and sixty years, to seek out exactly the communities that others find too remote, too difficult, or too easily forgotten.
It matters how this is understood. The Kachi Kohli, the communities of Anglophone Cameroon, the people of Sudan are not simply places of need waiting to be helped. They are places of deep faith, of patience and resilience that would humble most of us, and of a Church that is often more alive there than it is at home. The Society does not arrive to rescue them. It arrives to stand with them, to learn from them, and to share what it can.
How you can stand with them
If meeting these communities has stirred something in you, that is worth following. The most natural first response is to pray for them, by name where you can. Beyond that, there are plain and practical ways to help: our page on the ways to support sets out how to give, and our projects page shows the particular pieces of work, the school in Sindh, the classrooms in Cameroon, and others, that a gift can go to. None of it asks more of you than you are able to give.
Support our work
You are warmly invited to stand with these communities in whatever way you can, beginning, if you like, with prayer. They are real people, in real places, and your prayers and your help reach them as surely as they began with you. When you are ready, our ways-to-support and projects pages will show you how.
