CANTERA
Organization / Location: Center for Communication and Popular Education, Nicaragua
Funding: $10,000 – one-time grant
Contact: Anabel Torres, OSA, Executive Director, 011.505.277.5329
This project is designed to improve health and prevent disease in five rural communities. It will help farm families build concrete and iron tanks in which to retain rain water that will be available for all purposes, including safe drinking, during the six dry months of the year. It also includes the construction of sanitary latrines. CANTERA works to promote human dignity by raising consciousness about the equality of the sexes and the dignity and responsibility of each person. Those being served are the poorest of the poor.
Marian High School
Organization / Location: Rivers State, Nigeria
Funding: $10,000 one-time grant
Contact: Sister Philomena Okwu, DC,
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Marian High School, the only secondary school for girls located in the remotest end of Southern Nigeria, was taken over by the government in the 1970s. The school was returned to the Daughters of Charity of the Nigerian Province in 2005 however it had fallen into a state of disrepair. The worst problem is that the bore hole that supplies water to the school and the nearby village does not work, so rain water is used for drinking. This grant will be used to repair the bore hole and water storage tanks.
Masanga Dispensary
Organization / Location: Mother of Hope, Tarime, Tanzania
Funding: $5,000 one-time grant
Contact: Sister Jacqueline Gbanga, DC, nurse-manager of the dispensary, 255.787.230.937
This health facility is located in a remote area 72 km from the district hospital. It serves approximately 40,000 people in the community in the areas of health, education and social pastoral care. The clinic has seen an increase in the number of people it serves who are living with HIV/AIDS. This grant will be used to furnish a voluntary counseling/test center, to purchase a bicycle for home care providers and a motorcycle for the physician to provide home care, and to train a counselor and a pharmacy assistant.
Quality Education for Better Living
Organization / Location: St. Catherine Labouré School, Tarime, Tanzania
Funding: $10,000 one-time grant
Contact: Sr. Kathryn Bechtold, DC, Headmistress, 255.784572446
This program helps to improve the quality of life in this village community by providing education around the superstitions and cultural taboos that exist in such areas and addresses problems such as as female genital mutilation, polygamy and other areas of need. The program helps to raise the consciousness and understanding of women’s and children’s rights in a community where the dignity of these groups is often neglected, and stresses the importance of hygiene, healthcare, nutrition, peaceful conflict solving and education.
Kairos Community Health Centre, Uganda
Organization / Location: Sisters of St. Joseph of Carondelet, St. Louis, Mo.
Funding: $10,000 one-time grant
Contact: Sister Elizabeth Ney, Treasurer, 314.966.4048, ext. 11
This funding will assist with construction costs for a Health Center to meet the needs of persons recovering from the effects of 20 years of tribal warfare. There are many diseases in the area and the clinic will join the one functioning hospital in the area as a main source of medical care for 30,000 individuals in displacement camps. The Health Center will provide ongoing care and education to the inhabitants and help them to recover from the effects of war, the violent loss of loved ones, rape and forced child abductions.
