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Sister Agatha Titi Prawati has a new involvement among the street children in Semarang, Indonesia. "I feel touched and moved by this ministry because these children need to be loved and cared for," she shares. "These children take to the streets because of the economic situations in their families. Once on the streets, they often become involved in crime and violence ... I would like to help restore the children's rights and dignity. I also want to try to bring them back to their families and society." . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . As a follow-up to the People's Health Assembly, Medical Mission Sisters in Roshni, India, have selected volunteers in each village to look after the health needs of the people. They conducted a program for the volunteers, teaching them more about sickness, home remedies, and prevention. After forming a Village Federation of Self-Help Groups, 40 leaders of self-help groups from different villages attended the first Village Federation meeting. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . In Venezuela, Sister Juanita Ortega is working jointly with the Vooselaars Sisters in the area of Titicare, which is separated by a river from her base in Barquisimeto. The Sisters are helping in a vaccination campaign, and in other areas of health care such as dentistry. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . At the Catholic Network for Women's Equality in Sudbury, Ontario, Canada, Sister Miriam Therese Winter gave 2 keynote addresses: "Leadership in a World of Chaos" and "Being and Building Christian Community." At a 4-day church leadership retreat for women held at Luther College in Decorah, Iowa, she gave 3 keynote addresses on the theme of Spirit and spirituality, and designed and led the rituals for the event. Visit her website at: http://mtwinter.hartsem.edu.
June 1,
2004
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