Mary Frohlich
During the five months I was in the Congo, I lived on the compound of the Sacred Heart schools in Kinshasa. The school buildings, built in the early twentieth century by Belgian RSCJ, now house two high schools, three primary schools, and a two-year kindergarten – a total of 4500 students, mostly girls. During the Mobutu era, the Kinshasa schools were taken from the sisters and run by the government. Three years ago, with both the buildings and the moral fiber of the schools thoroughly run down, they were given back.