George Wirnkar
In 1996, George was invited to HLI’s leadership training course in Johannesburg, South Africa—along with Emil Hagamu and about 30 other pro-life leaders from 11 sub-Saharan African countries. Not long after this, he, like Emil, officially merged his pro-life work with Human Life International and became an affiliate. George has a good working relationship with the Church hierarchy and provides ongoing pro-life programs in his country. He has been especially effective at coordinating and providing a strong educational program for seminarians in Cameroon and in all of French-speaking Africa. Along with HLI-Central’s Joseph Meaney, George has expanded HLI missionary activities—especially in seminaries—in Rwanda, the Congo, Burundi, Mali, Senegal, the Democratic Republic of Congo, Benin, Togo, Burkina Faso, the Ivory Coast, Central African Republic, Chad and Gabon.