Food is stored at the mill as reserve for difficult times.
Another Oblate program is a social center at Parcelles Assainies, Dakar. This center features a sewing school for girls and a day nursery. Angola - Oblates had been trying to establish a mission in Angola since 1992. But civil war kept interrupting their plans. Finally, in 1997, the first Oblates arrived in Angola and began visiting communities where no priest had celebrated Mass in years.