Camille and Elise in Laos Four nuns in our community run the DaoArun nursery and primary school and a shelter for twelve children aged three to twelve in Savannakhet, Laos. As the school principal, I often got questions from teachers about child psychology. The congregation gave me the opportunity to welcome volunteers
Elisa and Maurizio volunteering in Sucre In November last year, my husband and I spent some time volunteering with the community of nuns in Sucre, Bolivia, and we were their guests for about a month. Sucre is a small town, with white houses that give it a strongly Latin
Fish farming in the community of Yaoundè The community of Sisters of Charity in Yaounde is located on one of the hills of Yaounde and lives in a house surrounded by a large plot of land, almost all of which is cultivated to support the sisters and the
Letters from the Missions in the general house, 22 October Reading in a loud voice the letters of the missionary sisters who left around the middle of the twentieth century: departures full on missionary passion, nostalgia, interminable journeys, often in incredible conditions, arrivals in countries unknown from every point of view,
Words of appreciation to volunteers 2025 from PARAGUAY Thoughtful Gestures Your [Volunteers ] selfless act that deserves recognition and appreciation. Sometimes, mere words of praise or simply saying Thank You to those involved in selfless acts seem meaningless. That's where Thank You Gifts for you [Volunteers ] hit
...your story. I meet Charles (Kladoum) on a rainy day in Sarh, Chad's second city, under the shelter n the courtyard of the House of the Sisters of Charity. I asked him to narrate to me when I learned that he had spent part of his childhood in
Chad – N'Djamena, Sarh, Balimba 7–29 August 2025 Stones and sand. That is what I have felt for a long time, during the last years of separation and devastating distance from my daughters. “There is a deep spring within me,” writes Etty Hillesum, a young victim of
Back in Italy for two weeks now, I try to reflect every day on: BEFORE – DURING – AFTER Thinking and rethinking carefully and scrupulously about this month spent in Chad, asking myself: ‘In what spirit did I live it?’ ‘Was I able to meet the expectations of
Threads of Hope: the fashion show at the Aventine Hill On Saturday, 13 September 2025, the second edition of the fashion show took place, the product of the ‘Fili di Speranza’ (Threads of Hope) project, born from the collaboration between the Thouret Foundation and the Terra e
