Solidarity Development and Light Association
SODELA NONPROFIT
Meet Our Counseling Team
Magwe Althemon 865-304-0832
Maburuki Jean 865-323-0431
Mbitswenimana 865-455-6228
Ntahondabagiriye Marc 856-243-0292
Habiyakare Maria 865-200-7406
Ndayiziga Jean Cloud 865-236-7844
Minani Michel 865-315-5056
Our counselors help community members by advising them of the importance of learning the English language and becoming citizens of the United States. They also provide marriage and family counseling, guidance and career counseling, and educational counseling. All counselors are lawful permanent residents (LPR) with a Green Card and are Sodela members, officers, or church elders.
We minister to more 100 families from Africa (Burundi, Tanzania , Congo and Rwanda), most of whom do not speak English. Thus it was imperative to form their own church where Kirundi is spoken. This official language of Burundi is also spoken in adjacent parts of Tanzania and Congo-Kinshasa, as well as in Uganda.