Felicitas Asoh

Felicitas Asoh

Felicitas Asoh was born in 1948 in Mankon Village, Bamenda, Cameroon, the eighth and only living child of Che and Ruphina Lum. She entered the Tertiary Sisters of St. Francis in 1970 and soon after trained as a nurse/midwife and anesthesiologist. Asoh earned a degree in public health from Viterbo University in Wisconsin, U.S. Her missionary passion is seeking out the sick and disadvantaged, and curbing malnutrition, particularly in children. She has volunteered with Project Hope, serving people with HIV/AIDS.

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Mohan with his parents and Sr. Felicitas Asoh

Cameroonian health center nurses malnourished children with love

"Although caring for malnourished children may have begun as a responsibility and urgent necessity, it is now the love of my life," writes Sr. Felicitas Asoh, who runs a health center in Cameroon.