The Ten Year Crusade Ted and Alicia Cardell

The Ten Year Crusade

Ted and Alicia Cardell with two of their children, 1960

Gerda and Martin Aiff with their six children, following their arrival in South West Africa, 1959.

Gerda Aiff

Hilifa Andreas Nekundi and Gerda Aiff at the jubilee

The first National Spiritual Assembly of the Baha’ìs of Namibia, 1981

Martin Aiff(left) with some baha’ìs on their way to a deepening seminar, 1988

Some of the members of the Omaruru children's choir.

Maina Mkandawire (second from left) with Baha'i women from Omaruru

Some of the participants at the jubilee

Participants at the jubilee drum in joy and unity.

The first Baha’ì local Spiritual Assembly in Samoa, 1957

Visit of Hand of the Cause Ruhiiyih Khanum for the opening of the Baha’ì Temple in Samoa, 1984

Ruhiyyih Khanum is greeted by the Head of the State of Samoa

Hand of the Cause Dr Giachery at the Temple site in 1982

A member of the National Assembly

The Head of the State of Samoa, His Highness Susuga Malietoa Tanumafili II

Lilian Wyss-Ala’i who introduced the Faith in Samoa in 1954

Samoan men at the residence of the Head of the State

Lilian Ala’i, knight of Baha’u’llah for Samoa, with the daughter

Mr and Mrs Garcia: in 1968 sailed in Samoa on their vessel and introduced the Faith to many people

Some of the participants at the Jubilee, the result of the selflsess service of the numeorus pioneers

Beacon of unity in the midmost heart of the ocean…the Baha’ì House of Worship

Sardegna (Italy)

Marie Ciocca(right), Knight of Baha’u’llah, with some baha’ì friends, 1962

Dr. and Mrs Giachery, visiting Maria Ciocca in her pioneering post

Maria Ciocca with William Sears Aprile, Sardinia, 1954

Marie Ciocca with Livia Pargentino, the first to become baha’ì in Sardinia

1955, Historical trio: Rima Nichola and Tuaine Karotaua, the first two Cook islanders to become baha’ìs, with Edith Danielsen (right) who arrived in Cook Island in 1953

First Local Assembly of the baha’ìs of Rarotonga, 1956

Baha’ì pioneer Nan Greenwood, 95

Flowers of one garden

National Assembly of the Baha’ìs of the Cook Islands at the International Convention

A. Mazakmat, the first Papua New Guinean to become a Baha’ì

R. Hancock, 1956 who pioneered in Papua New Guinea in 1954 from New Zealand

R. Hancock in 2004

Violet Hoehnke, knight of Baha’u’llah for Papua New Guinea, with some children, 1954

The Local Assembly of Madina with a group of baha’ìs

Eight members of the first National Assembly of Papua New Guinea, 1969

Local baha’ìs meet with the Counsellor Mr Naraqi at their village

Hand of the Cause Ruhiyyih Khanum with Violette Nakhjavani with a baha’ì who hosted them at Aumu village, 1984

Baha’ìs with a banner for a baha’ì gathering

Baha’ìs at Mapaio, 1984

Tamun Kosep, a traditional chief and treasurer of the first LSA of Madina

The first Spiritual Assembly of Andaman and Nicobar Islands with, at centre, Hand of the Cause Ruhiyyih Khanum

First Lady of Andaman and Nicobar Islands attending the jubilee

Some baha’ìs performing at the celebrations of the jubilee

Baha’ì gather at the Institute Conference

Member of Baha’ì adult literary class, Pygmy development project. Mubambiro, North Kivu, 1989

Members of the first National Spritual Assembly, 1971

Participants in a teacher training course at the Ola Baha’ì Institute

Chief (left) and fellow baha’ìs in a village

Girl performing at the jubilee

The Baha’ì Women Group of Lumumbashi

Members of the Dawn of Carmel Choir

Children’s theatre, depicting a travel teaching trip by Mr Nakhjavani to the Belgian Congo

National Assembly of the Baha’ìs of Democratic Republic of Congo

Oh! that I could travel, even though on foot and in the utmost poverty, to these regions, and, raising the call of Ya-Baha'u'l-Abha in cities, villages, mountains, deserts and oceans, promote the Divine teachings! This, also, I cannot do. How intensely I deplore it! Please God, ye may achieve it. " ‘Abdu’l-Baha