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Advocating for porters in Ghana
… female "head porter" ( kayayoo in the local language) spoke with a group of women religious of Ghana being trained in advocacy. Fou's husband sent her to Kumasi to make money for the family. … migrant women, aged 7 and above. Most are from poverty-stricken families of northern Ghana who move down to southern Ghana for work. Kayayei generally live in very poor conditions …
UISG's spirit manifests in connections that sisters forge during Manila meeting
… and learn, said Sr. Faustina Hasford, superior general of the Society of the Infant Jesus in Ghana, which has 66 sisters in four dioceses working in schools, parishes and health clinics. …
Working without a lot of fanfare in a time of blaring self-promotion
… Terese Mumuni, founder of the Nazareth Home for God's Children in the West African country of Ghana. The home is a place of healing for children with mental, behavioral and physical …
Q & A with Sr. Sharlet Wagner, new president-elect of LCWR
… living outside the United States. Then in my congregation, I ministered in Uganda, Ghana, and in leadership in the congregation, and I have visited a number of countries visiting …
Web of Life retreat traces a tragedy, explores a controversial forest
… Cali, Colombia, was in Darién working on a project when she learned the story of five men from Ghana who drowned crossing the Chucunaque River in 2015 as they made their way north to the … On Wednesday, Chois came to the pastoral center with Abdullah Audu Salisu, an artist from Ghana's capital of Accra who had come to see the graves and represent the families of the lost …
God transcends beyond our imagining
… how God transcends beyond our imagining," she says, recalling celebrations during her time in Ghana. "It was very, very different than the way we celebrate. The holy was expressed in so many …
Charism is carrying our community through global changes
… Ghanaian and an American. Together we also work with provincial and regional teams in Nigeria, Ghana, France, the United States, England and Ireland. As most leaders would agree, team building … Nigerian tribes, with cultures and languages that I had never heard of. I also met women from Ghana, because the novitiate was international. Later, when sent to apostolic communities, we …
Ten noteworthy stories from 2016
… series, which can be found in total here , included: The fight against illegal gold mining in Ghana , where foreign countries have set up mines on church land with no regard to the law or the … found here , included: What daily life looks like at the Agbogbloshie electronic waste dump in Ghana, where there are no public toilets and no potable water, and residents have to buy a squirt …
Intentionality will connect our goals across the world
… indigenous farmers' rights and destroys natural environments, most recently in Cameroon and Ghana. Experiencing the Nairobi group's surprise and joy in learning about the SDGs and …
National Vocation Awareness Week
… justice … NVAWenviro … Electronic waste: Informal economy supports thousands in Ghana slum … " 'You can make harsh judgments about these people, but when you get into the …
Sisters in Africa discuss efforts to protect environment, address climate change
… addressing this issue: … Sr. Faustina Hasford, superior general, Society of the Infant Jesus, Ghana: … We in Ghana engage in health care, but we had never thought of health care as related to the …
Dana Wachter
… anchor and reporter in Tennessee, Virginia, and North and South Carolina. After moving to Ghana to manage communications for a nonprofit, Challenging Heights , she first filed video …
On the streets of Sicily, global sisters accompany African migrants
… I had friends, I would go," he says in English. "But it takes money." He came to Sicily from Ghana to escape political unrest. His mother, father and brother are dead, he explains, looking …
St. Louis Sisters' mission in rural Ethiopia has adventures, challenges, and beauty
… ridges. It is in this place that three Sisters of St. Louis, two from Nigeria and one from Ghana, are making their new home. The popular story in the international media is that the … everything about it was just, I can't even express it," says Sr. Benedicta Boakye-Yiadom, from Ghana, as she recalled the first week in Dawhan. "Our first Sunday when we went to Mass, we took …
Sisters urge UN to remember grassroots work in pursuing development goals
… broadly over the West Africa region, Samuel Zan Akologo, the executive secretary of Caritas Ghana, said he was not pessimistic but acknowledged that, for a number of countries struggling to … of women, work for peace and justice and more. The Nigerian Province includes Nigeria, Ghana, and Burkina Faso. [Chris Herlinger is GSR 's international correspondent. His email …
Electronic waste: Informal economy supports thousands in Ghana slum
… Sodom and Gomorrah has 100,000 residents and no schools. The infamous slum in the south of Ghana's capital of Accra is actually Old Fadama, but everyone outside calls it Sodom and …
June 7, 2016
… is to be aware of what is inside and out , published on Global Sisters Report Image from Ghana's once-laudable health insurance plan puts Catholic hospital at financial risk , published …
Ghana's once-laudable health insurance plan puts Catholic hospital at financial risk
… ward in the city. But the hospital is struggling financially due to a delay in payments from Ghana's National Health Insurance Scheme , which is more than eight months behind, forcing the …
Illegal gold mining in Ghana undercuts church's plans for land, threatens environment and lives
… are perched at the edge of the pit, with a few kids darting among them. One might expect that Ghana's illegal gold mining would be carried out hidden from public view, surreptitiously, …