Wycliff Peter Oundo

Wycliff Peter Oundo of Nairobi, Kenya, is a freelance journalist working with Global Sisters Report.

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Sr. Philomena Okwu, of the Daughter of Charity of St. Vincent de Paul, is pictured in an undated photo (Courtesy of Talitha Kum)

Nigerian sister honored for work against human trafficking

Sr. Philomena Okwu was presented an award of excellence for her outstanding dedication to victims of human trafficking and contribution to anti-human trafficking efforts by Nigeria's Network Against Child Trafficking, Abuse and Labour.

Screenshot of the funeral Mass for Sr. Rita Shisala Itebete of the Sisters of Mary of Kakamega (GSR screenshot)

Former principal, Sr. Rita Itebete, remembered for mentoring thousands of girls

The former Sacred Heart Mukumu Girls School principal was remembered for  her storytelling skills infused with rich references to her Luhya culture.

Attendees of the fourth Talitha Kum training course for leaders outside a conference hall at the Loreto Mary Ward Center in Nairobi, Kenya. This was the first ever international leadership training to be held in Africa since it started in 2018. The training workshop drew 22 attendees and five coordinators from around the world. (Wycliff Peter Oundo)

Sisters among those attending Talitha Kum leadership training

A weeklong in-person training session was held in Nairobi, Kenya, to impart essential leadership skills to promote collaboration for preventing and creating awareness against human trafficking around the globe.

Sr. Jannifer Hiuhu hands over food rations to Chepokoronto Lotingora, a 33-year-old mother of eight. After a fire destroyed Lotingora's former home and claimed two of her children, the Incarnate Word Sisters helped her rebuild her home and provided her with food to sustain her family. (GSR photo/Wycliff Peter Oundo)

Amid prolonged drought, sisters in Kenya fend off starvation in pastoral villages

Despite a prolonged drought in Kenya, Catholic sisters help ward off mass hunger by providing food relief and "transformative solutions" that keep traditionalist villagers in isolated areas from becoming dependent on aid.

An altar server is pictured in a file photo holding a crucifix during Mass at a church in Port-au-Prince, Haiti.

Monday Starter: 3 sisters among 18 Catholic missionaries killed in 2022

The Catholic missionaries killed in 2022 — including three women religious — were not carrying out high-risk work, according to the news agency of the Pontifical Mission Societies.

Screenshot of GSR's new special section "Women of Faith: Honoring Catholic Sisters Killed in Service in Africa"

Lives of service and courage cut short by violence: Honoring sisters killed

For many local sisters killed while serving native African communities, their lives are only memorialized in the communities they served and in a few archives. Their deaths are rarely reported in mainstream news. Until now.

Sr. Bridgita Samba speaks to members of the Hilton Foundation, the Strathmore University Business School faculty and other women religious attending the Sisters' Blended Value Project launch April 27 at the university in Nairobi, Kenya. (Wycliff Oundo)

Self-sustainability project relaunches for sisters in four African countries

A program that for four years has helped sisters' ministries become financially self-sufficient has launched a revitalized version of the project that will help sisters access resources in four African countries.

Manicured lawns and paved walkways accentuate buildings at the St. Joseph Spiritual Center in Karen, a suburb southwest of the Nairobi central business district. The Little Daughters of St. Joseph manage the center. (Wycliff Oundo)

Little Daughters of St. Joseph operate sustainable conference center in Kenya

In 2008, religious sisters ventured into Kenya's hospitality industry, with a spiritual center that doubled as a conference tourism and lodging facility. They established and continue to run a successful center.

Sr. Tresa Palakudy of the Sisters of the Adoration of the Blessed Sacrament, right, poses with Sr. Julia Mulvihill of the Sisters of St. Francis of Philadelphia at Nyumbani Children's Home for orphans living with HIV/AIDS. (Wycliff Oundo)

Q & A with Sr. Tresa Palakudy, supporting children in Kenya’s forgotten HIV/AIDs epidemic

Because of the spread of COVID-19, Kenya has experienced a massive shortage of antiretroviral drugs (ARVs), threatening the lives of HIV/AIDS patients. Sr. Tresa Palakudy has provided the children she cares for at the Nyumbani Children's Home, an orphanage for children living with HIV, with ARVs, shelter and food so that they could withstand their intense medical treatment.

Mary Wanjiku, 26, displays one of her beaded products next to her shop in Limuru, a town in central Kenya. Wanjiku is a beneficiary of the Limuru Cheshire Home, a charitable institution for girls living with disabilities in Kenya. (Wycliff Oundo)

'Disability is not inability,' Assumption Sisters teach girls in central Kenya

The Assumption Sisters of Nairobi have helped thousands of women in Kenya who live with disabilities. The sisters manage a center that offers shelter to girls living with disabilities and teaches them skills to meet their potential.