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...
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...
The driver steered his car down a backcountry road that split canopies of great oaks, whose moss dripped from its long branches like Louisiana tinsel. The hardly-traveled road is a place where hawks soar over towering tree tops and deer and wild boar roam unencumbered...
ONE OF A KIND CELEBRATION 20,000 children celebrate their birthdays in world’s largest one day celebration. The event, named ‘Every Child’s Birthday’ will take place August 15th across six countries globally, and will mark the birthdays of some of the world’s poorest...
The Sisters of Mary provide safety, security, and education to over 20,000 of the most vulnerable children in the most dangerous circumstances throughout the world. Lanham, MD. (July 20, 2023) – Over ten million tickets have been sold for the surprise independent...
It is the Culture Eder Mendoza, who was one of the first graduates of the Sisters of Mary World Villages for Children program in Mexico, didn’t value the education he was provided initially. He took it for granted. Then he started to watch his peers. Older students...
