Stephan Uttom Rozario

In the Chittagong Hill Tracts of Bangladesh, several congregations have served amid ongoing violence. The congregations run educational institutes, girls hostels and health centers, and do pastoral works.

Sr. Teagon Andre Maria had already earned a nursing degree before she finally answered the call to religious life, joining the Sisters of Charity of St. Vincent de Paul and taking first vows in June. 

Sr. Leah Drong, a member of the Salesian Missionaries of Mary Immaculate, built Salesian Sisters' Nursing College in Mymensingh, Bangladesh, where poor students are studying. 
 

Holy Cross Sr. Monju Maria Corraya works with street children addicted to drugs in Dhaka, Bangladesh. "I think society and family are responsible for those children," she said. 

Biharis, the majority of which are Urdu-speaking Muslims, have challenges when it comes to education and understanding the Bengali language. Highly educated Biharis make up less than 2% of the refugee camp population in Dhaka. 

Sr. Champa Adline Rozario said that "to work with youth, you have to think like them and understand them. Accept their weaknesses and strengths and work with them." 

The schools and work of Our Lady of the Missions sisters have educated many members of the Khasi ethnic group in Bangladesh. Several are now established in society and work to protect the land rights of their community.

Dr. Sr. Lipy Gloria Rozario, a sister of the Our Lady of Sorrows, is a counseling psychologist, founder and director of the Healing Heart Counseling Unit, providing services since 2010 in Muslim-majority Bangladesh. 

Sr. Shibly Carmel Purification, who has been writing poems and articles since school, reflects on her spiritual life through poetry alongside her work as a Sister of Our Lady of Sorrows in Bangladesh.

The Contemplative Missionary Movement of Charles De Foucauld, known as "Blue Sisters," started a school in 1983 to serve nursery-aged children in the slums of Bangladesh's Rupsha area. Their work has made a difference.

Sr. Virginia Asha Gomes, 76, has run the S.F.X. Greenherald International School in Dhaka, Bangladesh, since 2005.

After earning her medical degree, Italian Sr. Roberta Pignone joined the Missionary Sisters of the Immaculate. For about 12 years, Pignone has been working for the recovery of patients as the director of Damien Hospital.

After seeing the work of the nuns at the Catholic Church's 80 health care facilities across Bangladesh, many girls from remote areas now show interest in becoming nurses, which was unimaginable 20 years ago.