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Sister Isidora Bollich, age 81, has traveled from Philadelphia to her summer mission with the people of St. Lawrence Parish in Mowata, Louisiana. "The bayou and the swamps are more beautiful than ever," she says of this area where she was raised. After spending 48 years overseas, most recently in Venezuela, Sister Isidora returned to the U.S. in 2003. She prays, visits with the sick, and continues her pastoral work among many family members, neighbors and friends. "My life is a very happy one," she adds. "I give my all, and I know the Good Shepherd will do the rest." . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Sister Gill Horsfield has received her home government's "Order of the British Empire" award for her over-20 years of primary health care service to the people of East Africa. Sister Gill works in Korogocho, a huge slum area of Nairobi, Kenya. She and a team of local health workers she trained care for over 1000 persons with AIDS in Korogocho each year. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Sister Agnes Panikulam, counselor at CamSupport in New Delhi, India, returned to mission earlier this year after taking refresher courses in Canada and the U.S. CamSupport offers palliative care to people with advanced cancer. During the spring, Sister Agnes held teaching sessions for members of the home care team, and presented a paper at CamSupport's Annual Foundation Course, which was well-received. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . In June, 2004, UN Secretary General Kofi Annan chaired the "Global Compact Leaders Summit" at the UN headquarters in New York. The Global Compact claims to bring corporations together with the UN to promote "responsible corporate citizenship." The Compact is neither a binding set of regulations, nor a code of conduct for companies. Medical Mission Sisters, along with an international group of non-government organizations, have signed a statement critiquing the Compact, and proposing real alternatives for corporate responsibility. They encourage active support of the "UN Norms on the Responsibilities of Transnational Corporations" (adopted in August, 2003, by the UN Human Rights Commission). These Norms "provide a succinct, but comprehensive restatement of international legal principles applicable to business concerning human rights, humanitarian law, international labor law, consumer law and anti-corruption law."
July 15,
2004
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