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Program participants in the Philippines

Fully Funded: Sisters’ Program to Support Village Entrepreneurs With Training and Seed Money

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Our donors helped impoverished villagers establish self-sufficient businesses and save their communities. Indigenous families in the Philippines suffer from ongoing warfare, severe poverty, and a lack of educational options. The Sisters in this region rely on donations to provide Indigenous families with the skills to become entrepreneurs by producing and selling their crafts. Thanks to […]


Program participants in rural India.

Fully Funded: Sisters’ Program to Empower the Poor Through Business and Skills Training

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The generosity of kind donors has helped marginalized women break cycles of poverty and overcome systemic injustice through entrepreneurial empowerment. The women in 30 rural Indian villages face crucial problems including systemic disempowerment, deadly human trafficking, heavy substance abuse, and severe poverty. The Sisters of St. Joseph’s Social Service Center have been living and working […]


Help People Who are Suffering from COVID in India

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***Campaign Update: We did it! Thanks to our amazing donors, we were able to raise more than $2,500 for Sister Remya’s community. Those funds will be used to purchase much-needed basic living resources such as food, clothing and toiletries. A thank you message from Sister Remya: Program Details Sister Remya Thomas of St. Joseph’s Sevasadan […]


Big Win for Moms in Need

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In partnership with the Sisters of St. Joseph of Carondelet, Sisters Rising Worldwide was able to provide much-needed resources to hundreds of mothers and their children whom the Sisters serve in their program, Learning In Style which is located in the metropolitan area of St. Paul, MN. Having suffered trauma, torture, or trafficking, the women come […]


Fully-Funded Programs Update

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We are so excited to announce some of the Sisters Rising Worldwide programs that were fully-funded in 2020 and during Q1 of 2021: Reducing Extreme Poverty and Social Inequalities by Empowering Women, BrazilWomen will become agents of influence in their community through workshops and a work cooperative. Rebuilding School System for Children K-12 in a […]


Help Mothers In Need This Mother’s Day

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Sisters Rising Worldwide is partnering with the Sisters of St. Joseph of Carondelet to provide much-needed resources to the hundreds of mothers and their children whom the Sisters serve in their program, Learning In Style which is located in the metropolitan area of St. Paul, MN.   Having suffered trauma, torture, or trafficking, the women come […]


TODAY SHOW: Catholic nuns lead global fight against human trafficking

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In case you missed it, we wanted to share this recent TODAY Show segment on how Catholic sisters are fighting human trafficking head on, often putting their own lives on the line. The segment features Sister Jeanne Christensen, representing US Catholic Sisters Against Human Trafficking, which is a program raising funds through SRW. Click here […]


Program Empowering Disadvantaged Women Fully-Funded

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Thanks to our wonderful donors, we were able to fully-fund the SRW program in Tamil Nadu, India.  The program, which will help intensify program offerings promoting gender equality and the empowerment of women in 30 villages, was seeking $7,940 in funding to help offset the costs of initiatives such as human trafficking prevention, violence against […]


Striving for the Good of All

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Vicki Hale, Virtual English Language Fellow for St. Joseph’s College for Women in Visakhapatnam, India, sent us this wonderful video about her time with the Sisters and students. Thanks to Sisters Rising donors, this school is able to help girls gain the skills necessary to find employment so they, as Ms. Vale states, “can be […]


Follow Up: Tacna, Peru

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During this time of COVID, when there is so much death and misery in Tacna, Peru, funding that Sisters Rising Worldwide donors provided, has allowed the school psychologists to double the time they are spending with students and their families.  They have been conducting workshops to support parents and teachers in helping their children cope […]