At the DREAM Center in Nairobi, Daughters of Charity of St. Vincent de Paul, staff and community health volunteers offer holistic care, testing, education and treatment services for people living with HIV/AIDS.
Though the efforts of sisters in Bosnia are small in scale, and often involve those the sisters have befriended, they are helping mend wounds in a country where war fueled ethnic and religious animosity.
The schools and work of Our Lady of the Missions sisters have educated many members of the Khasi ethnic group in Bangladesh. Several are now established in society and work to protect the land rights of their community.
For decades Sr. Consuelo Morales has provided legal and psychological assistance to the families of those who have been killed or are missing, making her one of Mexico's most prominent human rights defenders.
In Zambia, Sisters of the Sacred Hearts of Jesus and Mary manage a school to teach and support children with disabilities. More than 200 children with disabilities are enrolled there.
The Kariobangi Women Promotion Training Institute, run by the Comboni Missionary Sisters, helps young women in Nairobi's low-income areas, offering them skills in tailoring and dressmaking, hairdressing, and catering.
As violence continues in Manipur, India, sisters care for children in refugee camps while continuing their ministry of looking after orphaned and abandoned children in their Homes of Hope shelters.
The Poor Handmaids of Jesus Christ in Bengaluru, India, educate children who would otherwise be working with their nomadic parents in garbage segregation units, in waste picking or at construction sites.