July 17, 2015

  • Girls at Homes of Hope orphanage in Secunderbad, India. Homes of Hope works in collaboration with the Salesian Sisters of Don Bosco, who administer the orphanage. (Paul Wilkes)

" . . . a true ecological approach always becomes a social approach; it must integrate questions of justice in debates on the environment, so as to hear both the cry of the earth and the cry of the poor."

- Pope Francis, from "Laudato Si', on Care for Our Common Home" (Chapter 1, Section 5, Paragraph 49), referred to in Lauato Si' - A story of right relationships by Patricia Siemen, published on Global Sisters Report July 7, 2015on.

Read more about the pictured orphanage, which earned a LEED Silver designation for its environmental design, here.