by Paul Gesterling | Apr 16, 2025 | Blog, Children
A Garden of Hope: Introducing the Sponsor a Child Program In this triumphal Easter season—a time of renewal, joy, and hope—I am honored to share a monumental milestone in the life of World Villages for Children and the Sisters of Mary. Today, with full hearts, we...
by Kevin Wells | May 8, 2024 | Blog, Children, Sisters
Feature article from National Catholic Register… Tanzania Testing Day: A Child’s Chance to Escape Poverty and Danger Once a year in Tanzania, on its world-forgotten islands, unvisited mountainsides, and in jungles and brush with man-eating animals, the Sisters...
by The Sisters of Mary | Mar 25, 2024 | Blog, Children, Sisters
From May 1st to 7th last year, I went to the southern regions of Tanzania, (in particular, Mtwara and Ruvuma regions,) to accompany our two Filipina Sisters, Sr. Bernadeth and Sr. Marchery to give exam and interview some candidate students who will join our first...
by The Sisters of Mary | Nov 29, 2023 | Blog, Children, Sisters
Mission experience in daycare By Sister Theresita Kim Five months ago I received my mission in daycare, to recruit young children we visit house to house looking at economic situation and how many family members there are, we do this to see if the children really need...
by Kevin Wells | Nov 2, 2023 | Blog, Children, Sisters
With the expanding war, I’ve been thinking about the detonation of bombs into childhoods. In the deep interior of Mexico last week at Villa de los Niños in Guadalajara, Mexico, I walked paths and found myself falling into new friendships with three American...
by Kevin Wells | Oct 11, 2023 | Blog, Children
The sister saw the boy approaching like a ghost emerging from a parched wilderness. He looked to be 11 or 12; his eyes were enormous and glazed over. The sister from the Sisters of Mary community knew these were the hunger eyes of the East African plains. When she...
