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Sisters in Ghana gain self-sufficiency with juice- and water-bottling operation
… bags filled with water that are the most popular way for people to get drinking water in Ghana. The collaborative donated two other water sachet machines to other congregations in Ghana. The collaborative is supported by the Conrad N. Hilton Fund. "With the water, we're …
Q & A with Sr. Mary Owusu Frimpong, bringing health care to the margins
… hospital, St. Michael's Catholic Hospital – Pramso, to understand more about health care in Ghana and Frimpong's challenges as a female administrator in the patriarchal medical environment. … you're not qualified. I have a master's degree in governance and leadership from GIMPA [the Ghana Institute of Management and Public Administration] in Accra. So it's not really about me …
February 25, 2016
… by the Taliban See also Q & A with Sr. Angelina Gerharz, founder of Porter Girls Project in Ghana by Melanie Lidman, published on Global Sisters Report …
Q & A with Sr. Angelina Gerharz, founder of Porter Girls Project in Ghana
… Melanie Lidman … Madina market in northeastern Accra, the capital of Ghana, is a riot of colors and smells: dried fish heaped on top of hampers filled with wiggling … Sr. Angelina Gerharz, 72, a Holy Spirit Sister who is originally from Germany but has been in Ghana for 48 years, founded the Porter Girls Project in 2010. Global Sisters Report recently …
When it comes to the environment, are we providing bread or stones?
… Faces and stories of brothers and sisters from places like Bangladesh, Indigenous Nations, Ghana, Cartaret Islands, and Central America appear at unexpected moments. As I find myself in a …
'Yes, I can do that' – Sr. Megan Rice's legacy of anti-nuclear weapons work
… arrests came after she'd spent 33 years teaching science and running schools in Nigeria and Ghana. In the late 1980s and 1990s she returned to the United States twice from Africa to help …
Yemin, Burkina Faso and Kenya
… cost of hunger. Reporting from Burkina Faso , a western Africa country sandwiched between Ghana and Mali, they explain that nearly one-third of the children there suffer from a form of …
Extracting industries unite sisters and brothers across continents
… in Des Moines to celebrate International Women’s Day, I heard of the struggle of women from Ghana and other countries in Africa. As a sister Ambassador on the Planet, I am spreading the …
Durstyne Farnan
… Adrian Dominican sister from Michigan. After teaching elementary and junior high, she lived in Ghana, West Africa and Kenya with indigenous religious sisters in their initial formation … hermana dominica adrianense de Michigan. Después de enseñar en primaria y secundaria, vivió en Ghana, África Occidental y Kenia con religiosas indígenas en sus programas de formación inicial. …
Q & A with Sr. Verónica Fajardo
… final vows, Fajaro went to North Carolina, where she taught for three years, then in Ghana for a year and a half. After that she went to Utah, where she became a certified legal … with companies where we can put pressure on them to improve their practices. For example, in Ghana, children are being used to pick cocoa beans. But if we’re shareholders in Hershey, we have …
Amid West Africa's Ebola fight, deacon and church empower community
… of the deadly Ebola virus in the region. Flanigan took the last flight to neighboring country Ghana before routes were shut down Aug. 31. His hockey bags contained some of the first …
Ebola and chocolate
… sales worldwide is because 70 percent of the world’s cocoa beans come from the Ivory Coast, Ghana, Nigeria and Cameroon. Although none of the countries have been hit in the current Ebola …
Not just facts and figures: Accounting is empowerment
… Since the SLDI program started in 2007, 2,100 sisters have participated in courses in Ghana, Nigeria, Cameroon, Kenya, Uganda, Tanzania, Zambia, Malawi and South Sudan. HESA started …
Q & A with Sr. Kathleen Burns
… sisters. The first courses were given the following summer in Nairobi and in Cape Coast, Ghana. I went to Ghana to teach the first basic computer skills course. … As we come to use the Internet more and …
Women working with women: African Catholic nuns transform their communities
… the 19th century was instrumental in restoring a rightful traditional leader; Amazon women in Ghana and Ndebele women in Zimbabwe, who resisted imperial domination in these societies; and the … with Malawian orphans. Sr. Stan Terese Mario Mumuni was granted the title “savior of Ghana’s rejected children” in 2012 by the African Review for her remarkable commitment and care …
A safe haven for girls escaping FGM in Kenya
… run by Catholic sisters who are graduates of the Sisters Leadership Development Initiative in Ghana, Uganda and Kenya. Seeing the works that these alumnae are engaged in left me convinced …
Q & A with Sr. Priscilla Yein Wulaiwimia
… after high school and eventually studied for a business diploma at the Kumasi Polytechnic in Ghana. As provincial secretary, Walaiwimia’s work includes coordinating events and representing …
To baffle, to build
… Today as executive director of the Women Peace and Security Network Africa , based in Ghana, she describes that, in all the struggles, “the women came” – to right the wrong, address …