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International Women’s Day – Nigeria

International Women’s Day – Nigeria

By Sr. Eucharia Madueke Click to download the anthem International Women's Day Anthem: So sing a song for Women everywhere "Women all over the world are longing to be free" is an anthem/song circulating around the world on International Women’s World Day. African...

Centre for Disabled Children in Kenya

Centre for Disabled Children in Kenya

By Sr. Mary Akinyi, SNDdeN A fun day for children - DISABILITY IS NOT INABILITY. As Program Coordinator of Songa Mbele na Masomo Children’s Centre, I do my ministry in this community based centre which opened in 2009 and began operations in 2010 in the Mukuru Slum, in...

LENT 2023: Care of our Common Home

LENT 2023: Care of our Common Home

THE LETTER A Message for our Earth Watch video: https://youtu.be/Rps9bs85BII Care of Our Common Home!               Download and click the links to watch short videos. Dear Friends, Each Lent we make the extra effort to review where our lives and choices have taken...

Needed Winds of Change

Needed Winds of Change

By Sr. Joan Burke, SNDdeN Pope Francis accepts gift from an indigenous person. Remember our surprise at hearing the name of the person chosen to replace Pope John Paul II: Jorge de Bogolio! a prelate from Argentina! And again, shock/surprise in learning that a Jesuit...

Teachers and Educators moving into the Future with Hope

Teachers and Educators moving into the Future with Hope

Sr. Immaculate Okoiti, SNDdeN Who would question the deep and wide influence of collaborative efforts across nations? Africans in their wisdom tell us that "If you want to go fast, go alone, if you want to go far, go with others". Likewise, Hellen Keller says; “Alone...

Notre Dame in Haiti, The Mission Continues

Notre Dame in Haiti, The Mission Continues

By Sr. Jeannette Pierre-Louis, SNDdeN and Sr. Maureen O’Brien, SNDdeN Mariana Sanon awards certificates to students at the close of each program. This is the story of brave women who responded to the after effects of a massive earthquake in August 2021. It is the...

A Sister of Notre Dame de Namur Participated at COP27

A Sister of Notre Dame de Namur Participated at COP27

Sister Claudine Dumbi, SNDdeN, from the Congo-Kinshasa Province is participating at the International Meeting on Climate Change (COP27) in Egypt. The administrators at Catholic University of the Congo, where Sr. Claudine is a professor of agriculture and a researcher...

PRIORITY FOR EDUCATION

PRIORITY FOR EDUCATION

At Ipswich on June 22, Sr. Maria Delaney (middle) introduces the CLT to the Student Leaders. Two educational conferences, one for Student Leaders (June 21-24, 2022) and another for Administrators in our United States Sponsored Ministries (June 27-30, 2022), allowed...

THE ECONOMY OF FRANCESCO AND THE FINANCE AND HUMANITY VILLAGE.

THE ECONOMY OF FRANCESCO AND THE FINANCE AND HUMANITY VILLAGE.

By Sr. Mary Pabor, SNDdeN Sr. Mary Pabor, SNDdeN The Economy of Francesco is an event that sprang up as a response to the letter Pope Francis wrote to young economists and entrepreneurs worldwide on the 1st of May, 2019. Pope Francis desired to encounter young men and...

ECONOMY OF FRANCESCO MEETING 22-24 SEPTEMBER 2022 IN ASSISI

ECONOMY OF FRANCESCO MEETING 22-24 SEPTEMBER 2022 IN ASSISI

By Sr. Juliana Khaisia, SNDdeN Sr. Juliana khaisia, SNDdeN Economy of Francesco is an international movement that advocates for an economy that is inclusive of all regardless of our economic status thus enabling all humanity to have enough for all to have a good life....