CMDI's Stuart Smith has been working with a group at Holy Spirit Parish, Uniontown, Ohio (Youngstown Diocese), who have been led to assist financially with improvement of water supplies in the Diocese of Moshi (Roman Catholic), in the Kilimanjaro Region of Tanzania. He visited two locations in August 2008, assessed the situation, and located and obtained quotes from a qualified well contractor in the region for two projects.  One well cleaning project at Uchira (east of Moshi) was successfully completed in early 2009. This well is now back in service supplying water to several hundred primary school children, a dispensary-clinic, parish, convent, and as a supplementary supply for the village, which is majority-Muslim. Work was completed under budget. The Water Committee of Holy Spirit has now collected and the Youngstown Diocese has transmitted funds for a new well at St James Seminary, a secondary school northeast of Moshi. Stuart will continue as their technical advisor.

We consider this project to be a model of what CMDI can do. We are not locked in by church politics, we can help in whatever capacity we can. We prefer to work ecumenically with partners such as the Moshi Diocese who see their mission as helping all the people (as Christ did) regardless of religion.