| Foreign
Ministries • Healy
Murphy Center • Schools • Parishes • Social
Work • Missionary
Outreach
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| Orphans
in
Zambia, Africa |
Sister
Mary Margaret and young Zambian women |
Sister
Janet Nall (right) with young Zambian mother and ill baby |
A Zambian gathering | ZAMBIA
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| Sisters
Geraldine and Monica | Beginnings
in Zambia
In the mid eighties, the Sisters
of the Holy Spirit heard the call of the Church to religious
congregations to send some of their members into mission areas.
At the time, Rome had identified the Western Province of Zambia
as one of the areas most in need of missionaries. In 1987,
two Holy Spirit Sisters, Sister Anne Finnerty and Sister Christina
Mitchell visited Zambia. And faithful to the charism of Mother
Margaret, three sisters, Geraldine Klein, Rose McHugh and
Christina Mitchell were missioned to the Western Province,
the least developed of Zambia's nine provinces.
In
response to the needs of the area for education, health care and social service
of all kinds, we have reached out as best we can, as Mother Margaret would have
done. Sr. Mary Margaret O'Grady is a lecturer at the local teacher training college.
Sisters Geraldine Klein and Monica Carroll have completely re-built an old, dilapidated
seminary into a beautiful center called the Limulunga Multi-Purpose Center, which
they administer. Sisters Geraldine
and Monica Multi-Purpose Center Dining Room Sr. Monica greets guests at Multi-Purpose
Center An outdoor gathering place at Limulunga Multi-purpose Center Buildings
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| Multi-purpose
Center Dining Room |
The center houses a variety
of programs: Retreats, Nurse training programs, Marriage Encounter,
AIDS Education/Prevention, Home Based Care, Training for Care-givers,
Women for change, World Vision, Ministry of Health, Programs
for the Oblates of Mary Immaculate, Programs for the Bishops
around sustainability of parishes.
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An
outdoor gathering place at Limulunga
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Sister
Monica greets guests at Multi-purpose Center
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The
Sisters' Convent in Limulunga
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Sister Rose McHugh established
and operates a feeding/pre-school program for orphans and
a feeding/social program for destitute elderly in Limulunga,
as well as overseeing the Rite of Christian Initiation of
Adults and other pastoral programs at the parish and its outstations.
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Zambian
pre-school orphans in Sr. Rose's program
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Cooking
a meal for the orphans |
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Zambian
SHSp Community in 2002
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Elderly
Zambians receive and dance with new blankets
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| Sister
Janet Nall with ill child and parent |
Sister Janet Nall, a registered
nurse, established and operates a milk feeding program for
infants-at-risk (babies whose mothers died in childbirth or
of AIDS) during the first six months of life; a home based
care program for the dying and AIDS victims. Sr. Janet is
one of the nurses just recently trained for the Mother to
Child Transmission of AIDS Program.
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| Sister
Christina Mitchell |
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Breaking
ground for the new frmation house: Moya O Kenile
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Moya
O Kenile House
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Sister
Christina Mitchell is director of Moya O Kenile House (Holy Spirit in the Lozi
language). This is a house of studies and formation for young Zambian women who
are in the process of becoming Sisters of the Holy Spirit and Mary Immaculate.
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| Sister
Ann Fenerty | Sister
Anne Finnerty assists with the formation of young women and also serves as secretary
to Bishop Paul Duffy.
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| Sisters
Maimbolwa Lutangu, and Matilda Chanda, SHSp | Sister
Maimbolwa Lutangu and Sister Matilda Chanda professed their first Vows as Sisters
of the Holy Spirit and Mary Immaculate on January 11, 2002. Sister Matilda is
now in her second year of training to be an elementary school teacher and Sister
Maimbolwa is in her first year of training as a secondary school teacher. Other
young Zambian women are following in the footsteps of Sisters Maimbolwa and Matilda!
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| Isabel
Kabuba Mubiana and Mary Musale Munsaka |
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| Hope
Chanda Kapyela and Charity Mushokabanji Sitwala |
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Sarah
Iñutu Likando, Diana Batunda, Barbara Iñutu Susiku, Mwangala Caroline
Mwiyambango, Tusie Lubinda and Sibeso Regina Kalaluka |
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