Mashege is a remote village at an altitude of 2000 m. in the Dambanga area of South Tanzania, near the border with Zambia. It is four hours far from the Kindamali Mission Center and it is of indescribable beauty! This village has the blessing to now have a beautiful church in honor of St. Paisios the Athoniteand St. Luke the Surgeon. His Beatitude Theodoros II, the Patriarch of Alexandria, celebrated the service of the Sanctification of the Water (Agiasmos) for the groundbreaking ceremony for the Holy Church and blessed the nearby bore-hole, which now serves the needs of the villagers, because water is hard to find at this altitude and everyone, young and old, had to travel tenths of kilometers every day in order to fill even one bucket from a nearby stream, which for quite a long time was dry.
