Sr. Rose and Sr. Jenny, together with the collaborators Rosemela and Dodie, tell us their experience in the Scholarship project, our ministry that has been following students in difficulty in the Philippines. The Scholarship project has been following students...
“School feeding not only fills stomachs, but has a proven track record of boosting enrolment, attendance and academic performance. For just pennies a day per child, this program changes lives – and ultimately can impact the futures...
When I was a child, I have so many things in my mind that I wanted to do when I grow up, one of those is to serve other people as what I can see my parents does to others and I want to emulate them. I saw how diligent they are...
At APAI, the Franciscan Sisters of the Poor Daycare and Formation Center in Pires do Rio, we celebrate Fathers' Day every year by bringing the children and their parents together. Each year the institution tries to do this...
About three years ago, two parishes in Pistoia, Italy -- St. Benedetto and St. Francesco - worked together to produce a growth experience for the teenagers who just had confirmed. There were about fifteen of them, and it was a challenge...
“Shelter of hope” is a Ministry that we launched five years ago in the Philippines: it is a service of welcoming focused on helping young people who are living on the streets of Dumaguete City. In addition to offering meals...
My experience last summer in the Philippines continues to resonate in my present daily life. I spent almost two months with Sr. Cristina and Sr. Armi in Dumaguete City. Even though I arrived during the rainy season...
Faces of Hope: this is what we see in the eyes of every child and mother who has benefitted from the Children’s Pastoral (Pastoral da Criança) -- a work typical of Brazil and based on the Gospel preferential option...
“History is essential in the life of all people. Through history the presence of God is also revealed -- in the life of the Church and in the life of each person.”...
