On a balmy Saturday morning, in the last days of Christmas just before the culmination of the season in the Feast of Epiphany on 5 January 2014, friends, family and well-wishers gathered together on the premises of the Good Shepherd Convent Restful Waters in Singapore to traverse in spirit together as a community to Kolwezi in Democratic Republic of Congo (DR Congo), a forgotten place on a far side of the world in Africa.