Naomi Nkrumah

Naomi Nkrumah is a member of the Institute of the Sisters of St. Louis, from Ghana, West Africa. Her final profession was in June 2010. Her academic background is in English education, and she holds a Bachelor of Arts degree from the University of Education, Winneba, Ghana. After teaching in secondary school and working with youth for several years, she is doing missionary work in Ethiopia, East Africa.

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An Ethiopian woman who fled the ongoing fighting in Tigray region, carries her child near the Setit river on the Sudan-Ethiopia border Nov. 22, 2020. (CNS/Reuters/Mohamed Nureldin Abdallah)

Sisters work to help war victims in Tigray, Ethiopia

A woman named Roasa Ammuel shared her terrible story with St. Louis Sr. Naomi Nkrumah to let the world know what is happening to women and children amid the war in the Tigray region in Ethiopia.

An 8-year-old girl receives treatment at Ethiopia's Dubti Referral Hospital Feb. 24. The girl lost her left hand from explosives left near her house.

The tragedy of the hidden war in Ethiopia's Tigray region

My heart is breaking for what is going on in Tigray, Ethiopia, where I served on a missionary team for the Sisters of St. Louis. The civil war there has killed thousands of people and internally displaced millions.

The landscape of Dawhan, Ethiopia, is seen beyond the Catholic kindergarten in 2016. (GSR photo/Melanie Lidman)

Missionary work, war, COVID-19 and climate change in Ethiopia

Living in Ethiopia has convinced me that we have been called to take part in healing the suffering of Mother Earth and to realize that God is doing something new in our lives, particularly regarding climate.

Woman in a Kindergarten room surrounded by children

The troubles in the Tigray region of Ethiopia

Tension between the Tigray region and the federal government of Ethiopia has been ongoing since I first arrived in Dawhan in 2019.