In what has now become an annual event, Principals, DRS’s and Student Leaders from five Colleges around the country gather at El Rancho, Waikanae. The commitment shown by each of these Colleges to attend this Leaders’ Retreat is to be commended and supported. During this time, we reflect on Leadership through the lens of Euphrasie’s […]
Over the past 100 years, 76 RNDM Sisters have lived and worked in the convent, school, parish, and music department at St. Patrick’s, Kaiapoi. The first three Sisters, Vincent, Natalie and Fabian, lived in a simple house which did not have a set-in flooring. They received help from the people. Farmers brought along wheat, potatoes, […]
When the old St Mary’s Convent, Clyde St, Hamilton was being stripped in preparation for demolition, anything not claimed was display in the Boarders’ Hall for bargain hunters to go through them. One item that intrigued me was a large sepia colored photographic print of Our Lady of the Missions. It showed no signs of ever […]
The Physically challenged children are a major issue in most villages of Bijapur district. Their families fail to cope with this problem and such children are considered a curse to the whole family. Many lack basic needs and have serious health conditions.
Kuchinda village in Odisha, there are several primary schools but the annual Status of Education Report shows that the quality of government primary education in Odisha has declined. School infrastructure is very poor and very badly maintained. There is very little access to quality education for tribal children.
Ndondol is one of the poorer areas in and people live in semi-arid zones. People rely on agriculture and they depend on rains. The sisters have been working together with women’s groups in different villages over the past 40 years, fighting against malnutrition especially for children aged one month to three years old.
The Menubu Dulangan is an indigenous tribe in Kulaman. Most people live at a subsistence level depending on good weather conditions for their agricultural-based livelihood. The tribal communities have been displaced by the influx of the settlers in the area which caused their minoritization and movement to the interior parts of the municipality. They live […]
Kawthaung is a township located at the Southern most of Myanmar, it is a border town and there are many people coming from different parts of Myanmar with the hope of looking for a job and to rent a place to live. These migrants are around 30,000 which made a total population of 100,000 people […]
Our Lady of the Missions. Our title describes our spirituality which is both Trinitarian and Marian.
The name Euphrasie Barbier chose for her Congregation is, doubtless, the most obvious proof of the fundamental Trinitarian orientation of her own life and that of the new religious family she founded. […]
Adèle-Euphrasie Barbier, known in religious life as Marie du Coeur de Jésus, was born on 4th January 1829, in Caen, France. The family had a strong faith and her parents instilled into their young family the values of honesty and hard work. […]
