Mujeeb ur Rehman, Regional Missionary, Ziguinchor, Senegal
In Senegal’s city of Ziguinchor, Jamaat-e-Ahmadiyya organised a Tabligh bookstall. Along with other Jamaat books, translations of the Holy Quran in local languages like Wolof, Pular and Mandinka were displayed. Pamphlets were also distributed for the purpose of introducing the Jamaat. Various speeches of Hazrat Khalifatul Masih Vaa about peace and harmony were distributed in the form of pamphlets in the French language.
A book exhibition was organised in the Assane Seck University of Ziguinchor city. More than 8500 students from 24 countries are studying at the university. Numerous students visited the exhibition. The teachers and students highly appreciated the message of peace. The director of the university was also presented with Jamaat books as a gift. He thanked the Jamaat for organising the exhibition and said that such activities prove to be useful for the students of the university because they get access to books other than the syllabus.
A blood donation programme was also organised at the regional hospital of Ziguinchor. The administration of the hospital appreciated this effort. At the end, Jamaat literature was given to the blood bank in the hospital.
A special team of IAAAE from Germany visited the remote village of Bamba Touma in the Ziguinchor region to install solar lights.A meeting was arranged with a journalist who is a correspondent of some national newspapers in Senegal. He came to the regional mission house of the Jamaat and got more information about the Jamaat. He was very inspired by the religious activities and humanitarian works of the Jamaat. After some days, he published the introduction of the Jamaat with a picture of the Promised Messiahas, in L’Evidence. This is a daily newspaper in the French language with a daily circulation of 8500. Online readership is more than 100,000.