The reach out to Africa project was conceived in 1986 and since then three groups have visited the missions in Kenya.

The three visiting groups were composed of 18 students and 5 adults (four members of staff and a nurse). The visits lasted one month.

During the outreach the groups visited St. Mary's School Nairobi, the shanty towns of the city, the Holy Ghost missions in Nairobi, Nakuru and Machakos diocese. They, further, went on a 1500km visitation of the desert and semidesert areas of Kenya as far as Lake Turkana and back through Pokot.

Besides meeting the people of Kenya in all these different locations each trip had a project. In the first year they laid the foundations for a church which the second group finished. The third group dug a one kilometre trench to lay a water supply for an outlying village without water, they refurbished a school-cum church, built a toilet and did major maintenance work on two of the mission houses they visited.

In the month almost 3000 kilometres were traversed in the back of lorries. 20 days were spent sleeping either on floors or in tents in the desert. Many different tribes were encountered and awesome landscapes and animal life were experienced. Each outreach ended with three days beside the Indian ocean to recuperate and evaluate the previous three-and-a half weeks.

The next outreach will probably be to the shanty towns of Brazil, where like Kenya, many past students have taken an option to serve the very poor as their life's commitment.

The extent of the missionary outreach could not be covered in even many tomes since well over 700 past students joined seminaries from Blackrock. At present, they are involved in work in all the five continents of the world. The vast majority of them opted to serve the most poor and abandoned. A few have been shot, jailed or 'executed' for their commitment.