Sincere thanks to the many individuals who supported the Sisters of Notre Dame’s global mission programs in Africa, India and Papua New Guinea through a gift to the annual Missionary Cooperative Plan.
The sisters working in these mission countries have accomplished much in the past year. Here are highlights: In India, Sister Sudha, who manages schools and hostels for low-caste girls in Patna and Gaya, provided food to surrounding villages during India’s pandemic lockdown, especially to the elderly, widows, orphans and mentally and physically challenged; In Darjeeling, India, as soon as COVID symptoms appear, people come to the sisters’ health center to receive medication and home remedies for healing. Sister Nalini gave first-aid training to community development workers so that they could reach out to 20 villages across the region to assist COVID patients and refer them to hospitals when necessary; In Papua New Guinea, the sisters are working at their ministries in Notre Dame Secondary School; the Shalom Care Center for HIV patients; the Maria Kwin Technical, Vocational, Educational School; and in ministry at the Diocesan Radio Station. Many lives are touched by these ministries; In Tanzania, grade seven students at the Aloysia Home for Orphans and other at-risk girls successfully completed their national exams and all received the government distinction of being promoted to secondary school. The sisters in Tanzania are building a small computer lab for their primary grade students as well as a library and writing center to expand students’ reading and writing skills; In Uganda, the students at St. Julie’s earned high marks on each level of the 2021 national exams, including the only females in the top 10 students on the junior college level, and all primary students earning the top score for the first time in the school’s history.
Thank you for your generosity to the Missionary Cooperative Plan and your interest in the international mission priorities of the Sisters of Notre Dame.