by Sister Ndukeobong Clement Head of Administration, Caritas Makeni, Sierra Leone, Africa In 2023, I was entrusted with the care of 20 young children through the ANCOP-CARITAS Sponsorship program, I felt both honored and humbled. Each child carried a story, some marked by poverty, others by broken families or quiet struggles. I was asked not just to manage their sponsorships,...Read more

by Sister Meg Umoh Ministering with the people of Sierra Leone, particularly among the youth at the University of Makeni as the head of the Public Health Department (HOD) and director of the Center of Excellence in Maternal and Child Health Education and Research, has filled my heart with deep affection for the people I work with and a sincere...Read more

This year, the School Sisters of Notre Dame (SSND) celebrate the 50th anniversary of the founding of their mission in Sierra Leone. In 1973, what was then the St. Louis Province sent four sisters to Yengema in Sierra Leone to start a girls’ section at Yengema Secondary School. Sisters were sent to Port Loko in 1976, Kabala in 1979, and...Read more