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Clean Water, New Life

May 23, 2013 by Cross Catholic Blog

For 53-year-old Ana Curazo and her 8 children in Rancho Pando, Nicaragua, contaminated water is now a thing of the past! “We have suffered a lot because of the lack of water,” Ana said. “Now, that is just part of our history.”  Thanks to the Amigos for Christ water and sanitation project funded by Cross […]

Filed Under: Latin America, Water, women Tagged With: Nicaragua, water, women

Message from Ethiopia

March 26, 2013 by Cross Catholic Blog

Sister Brikti Tesfay of the Daughters of Charity sends us thanks from Ethiopia, where Cross Catholic Outreach is funding a project to help vulnerable women attain financial stability. Sr. Brikti writes: Working with the poor is morally empowering. Every day I listen to their stories. When I let them narrate their stories, I see on […]

Filed Under: charity, women Tagged With: Catholic ministry, women

“Too many of our women are dying in childbirth!”

August 17, 2012 by Cross Catholic Blog

I just got back from central Haiti, an area with the country’s highest rates of malnutrition, poverty, fertility, and child & infant mortality. When our ministry partner there, Project Medishare, polled community members to gauge the greatest health problems, it was the men who said, “Too many of our women are dying in childbirth!” Why […]

Filed Under: Haiti, women Tagged With: Haiti, women

Charity with Dignity

May 23, 2012 by Cross Catholic Blog

You may hear us talk about maintaining the dignity of the poor. Part of having dignity is knowing that you are a valuable, capable human being; and seeing the fruits of your own labor helps build such knowledge. That’s why microenterprise projects are so beneficial. Instead of a providing handout, they provide a ‘hand up.’ […]

Filed Under: Africa, women Tagged With: Africa, Self Help, women

Good news from Guyana

February 28, 2012 by Cross Catholic Blog

I just received good news from Guyana about a girl we’ve been helping there named Faye. She’d grown up in a really remote area of the country, several days journey from the city of Georgetown where I met her. Her poor single mom had died just two years earlier. At age 20 she was all […]

Filed Under: women Tagged With: wedding

Part II: A Day at San Lucas Rural Health Project

September 1, 2011 by Cross Catholic Blog

On Tuesday, I promised you a story of someone whose life was saved by the efforts of San Lucas Rural Health Project, a Cross Catholic-supported health outreach to rural mountain communities in Bolivia. Meet Sabina Ovideo, a 47-year-old woman whose life was threatened by a heart condition, but thanks to the efforts of the rural […]

Filed Under: medical, women Tagged With: medical care, women

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