In 2021, the fraternity "Kër Taizé" in Dakar moved place. In this article, a brother shares his thoughts. In a hushed voice, the news breaks like winter thunder: the building that houses Kër Taizé must be demolished. Kër Taizé and Ak benn will have to move. Yes, we have written "Kër Taizé" because a "kër" ("house" in Wolof) is more than a building. The heart of Ak benn will be able to beat (...)
17 February 2022
“When, week after week during our outings, we collected all kinds of objects found in nature in order to find a meaning for them, nobody could have imagined that we would create a beautiful exhibition with them: “MAKE, MAKE AGAIN, MAKE LIVE AGAIN.” The exhibition was installed in Kër Taizé itself, and has been much visited by schoolchildren, students, visitors of all ages and cultures. Our (...)
20 December 2015
The brothers arrived in Senegal at the beginning of 1993, at the invitation of Cardinal Thiandoum, the then archbishop of Dakar. The intuition of Brother Roger was that we should establish a small fraternity of the community in a Muslim country of black Africa (officially there are scarcely 5% of Christians in Senegal) even if at that time the tensions around Islam had scarcely begun to make themselves felt in the world. The brothers set up home in a large working class neighbourhood of (...)
8 January 2010
The children, the women, the youth… what are they doing here?Do they realize that with “ak benn” they can lay the foundations for their future? For they are being offered a chance to learn, to discover, to build and network relationships, and each day to go a step further. This is what we call “ak benn". It began at Kër Taizé, the house of the Taizé brothers living in Dakar. The suburbs of Dakar where ak benn is implanted in four locations offer few prospects for young (...)
19 December 2007
“Very small projects” Upon the initiative of the Taizé brothers living in Dakar, Senegal, a reception service for refugees and immigrants (P.A.R.I.) was set up in 1995, under the auspices of Caritas-Dakar. The parishes and the religious communities of the city gave it responsibility for an activity that is becoming more and more necessary as the number of displaced persons increases in this Western horn of Africa. From the start, the P.A.R.I. has put the accent on (...)
18 September 2007
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