Quarters are tight. Garbage and open ditches with human waste are common. We walk past the home of the Jesuits' Eastern Africa provincial, Fr. Fratern Masawe, who insists on living amid the parish flock. A woman opposite the house washes clothes in two tiny plastic basins.
Water is scarce yet seems to multiply like fishes and loaves to satisfy the laundry.
Eastern Africa Province's novice director Fr. Leo Amani, SJ, a Tanzanian, greets incoming Jesuits at the novitiate in Arusha, Tanzania. Amani, who spent six years in studies in Rome, was ordained by Pope John Paul II before returning to his homeland. The roads, it seems, are not well marked. Monday afternoon we stop at the Nyumbani hospice for HIV-positive orphans, founded by Fr.