Boitumelo Albertina Matlhabe is a member of the Sisters of Calvary of Botswana, the only local congregation in the country. She grew up in a village in Botswana, and since entering the community has engaged in teaching, counseling, catechesis, sewing and farming. She is currently the superior general of the Sisters of Calvary in Botswana.  

Svitlana Matsiuk is from Ukraine, and taught English and German at the National Aviation University in Kyiv before joining the Missionary Congregation Servants of the Holy Spirit in 2007. She ministered in Germany, where she started the project "Wanderarbeiter," in which she accompanied the seasonal workers from Eastern Europe. She has also served in the Philippines and in Ukraine, and participated in the formator's course organized by the Salvatorian fathers in Trzebinia, Poland. Currently, she directs the European novitiate of her congregation in Rome.