In East Africa, where most of the American Spiritans now serve, they began to work in the 1860s by buying men and women out of slavery in Zanzibar
स्वनिधी तसेच अमेरिकेतुन मिळालेल्या देणग्यांतून त्यांनी गुंटूरमध्ये १८ एकराचा भूखंड विकत घेतला.