In a small border town between Kenya and Tanzania sits Savelberg Mixed Day and Boarding Primary School, founded in 2012 by the Little Sisters of St. Joseph to provide the community with a learning institution.
Moved by the cruel treatment faced by many widows in Ghana, Mary Immaculate Sr. Gabriel Nonaah started St. Monica Widows Association to provide these vulnerable women with empowerment, education and self-reliance.
All of us need "grief time," "breathing time" or "retreat time" after this bucketful of losses because each loss affects us physically, emotionally, spiritually and intellectually.
At the Holy Trinity Home for Children in Quezon City, the Trinitarian Handmaids of the Divine Word shelter children who have been victims of sexual abuse, and provide them mental health care and education.
What Srs. Berta Sailer and Corita Bussanmas began as a day care 50 years ago has morphed into Operation Breakthrough, a nonprofit educating underprivileged kids of Kansas City, even after the sisters' deaths.
Catholic sisters in Kenya offer support to elder men and women who have been driven from their homes — if not killed — following accusations of witchcraft from those eager to take their land.
The Migrant Ministry of the Catholic Parishes of Oak Park has provided assistance to thousands of migrants — and nearly all of the ministry's volunteers are senior citizens.
The nuns are unsure how many women they have helped at St. Euphrasia's Safe Home, but a senior worker there said at least 25 women are in the house on any given day.
At the mission, "no one cares whether they are from the Turkana or Samburu community," says Sr. Felister Maria Kwamboka. "We remind them every day that all children belong to Jesus, and he sent angels to protect us."
