Sustainable Development Goal 3: Good Health and Wellbeing

Through a new initiative, congregations, federations and conferences around the world will work to ensure Catholic sisters with dementia and cognitive impairment will live their best lives both physically and spiritually until the end of their days.

More than 1,000 Catholic long-term care facilities in the United States, most of which were founded by sisters or are sponsored ministries, and secular nursing homes alike are working through the difficulties that persist. Residents suffer the consequences. 

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.

At a center near a war-devastated region in Sri Lanka, Salvatorian nuns care for children who are war orphans and victims of sexual exploitation. They help the children cope with trauma from the civil war that ended in 2009.