"As the roses touch our hearts with beauty they inspire us to give praise to God."

Global Sisters Report often focuses on work that sisters do to help those who are hungry or have food insecurity. This week, as the United States celebrates the feast of Thanksgiving, we focus on sisters who are active in food justice — trying to make sure that everyone not only has enough to eat but also access to healthy choices.

Read part one here: Equal access to nutrition determined by economic policy

For more than 60 orphans in a southern Indian city, Italian Sr. Fabiola Fabbri has become "Amma" ("Mother"). The nun from Florence gave these children security and shelter at Ashwasa Bhavan (Home of Comfort), or AB, in Kochi, the commercial capital of Kerala. The 47-year-old member of Apostolic Sisters of Consolata has become an Indian citizen so she can live in the country permanently and care for the less-privileged and homeless children.

GSR Today - It was very exciting for me to attend an international meeting in Nairobi, Kenya, at the end of October: Catholic Sisters, Champions of Sustainable Development. Sisters from east, central and west Africa gathered — 140 women — to learn about the SDGS and their potential roles in helping to implement them.

In early November, Lakota Sioux Therese Martin celebrated her 100th birthday in the crowded parish hall at Fort Yates, North Dakota, Standing Rock Sioux Reservation. To all gathered she said, "To see my people standing up for our rights, makes me so proud. Whenever I read about the water protectors at the camps along the Missouri and Cannonball Rivers, I pray they fight to the bitter end."

"It is necessary to respond to the globalization of migration with the globalization of charity and cooperation, in such a way as to make the conditions for migrants more humane."

GSR Today - Two years later, the situation sounds largely the same in this war-torn nation: Adama Dieng, the U.N. special adviser on the prevention of genocide came back with grim news. "I saw all the signs that ethnic hatred and targeting of civilians could evolve into genocide if something is not done now to stop it," he said.

Global Sisters Report often focuses on work that sisters do to help those who are hungry or have food insecurity. This week, as the United States celebrates the feast of Thanksgiving, we focus on sisters who are active in food justice — trying to make sure that everyone not only has enough to eat but also access to healthy choices.

"We in religious life can be tempted to feel complacent or unduly proud because we are working toward a future of sustainable prosperity. The challenge may be to ask ourselves if we are too prosperous."

Ask Haitians about lingering problems of poverty and hunger, and talk inevitably returns to poor political leaders. "There are no real leaders in Haiti and the ones we have are corrupt," said Corrielan Thérése Moléron, a member of a women's self-help group in Port-au-Prince organized by Missionary Sisters of the Immaculate Heart of Mary.