Sisters Rising Worldwide: Q1 2025 Impact Report
Leave your thoughtsOur latest Impact Report highlights a season filled with significant achievements and unwavering dedication to addressing the root causes of injustice worldwide.
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A Bar of Hope: Sisters Empower Nigerian Youth with Soap-Making Skills
Leave your thoughtsSr Chinweze of the Sisters Immaculate Heart of Mary in Nigeria shares the following thank you video from her students in the Youth Training and Empowerment Program on Soap Making in Nigeria. Thanks to our generous donors, Sisters Rising Worldwide sponsored workshops to teach 100 young men and women how to make different kinds of […]
CURRENT CRISIS
Leave your thoughtsAround the world, humanitarian needs are growing amid the defunding of key U.S. foreign assistance programs like USAID. Support systems that once served the most vulnerable have collapsed — especially in hard-to-reach places in Africa. As NGOs lose funding and their staff have had to exit these regions, the Sisters remain. Embedded in the very […]
A Slice of Empowerment
Leave your thoughtsSr. Swapna Devasia discovered an unexpected avenue for empowerment by combining her passion for baking with the needs of marginalized girls and women in her community. Read her story below. As a religious social worker, my primary focus has always been empowering marginalized communities in my home country of India, and working to combat human […]
The Power of Transport: Sisters Enabling Lifesaving Services Worldwide
Leave your thoughtsThe Loss of a Lifeline Sr. Lydia Mariette Soita works at Immaculate Heart Hospital Kereita, the only medical facility within 30 miles of her community in rural Kenya. There, many live in slums and have few clothes to wear in the cold climate. After the hospital ambulance was involved in a serious accident, it was […]
Online Education Empowers Global Sisters in Healthcare
Leave your thoughtsThanks to SRW donor support, Sisters from around the world are strengthening the health of their communities through an innovative e-learning program. Medicines for Humanity’s E-Learning for Health Workers offers low-cost online learning solutions for Sisters working as local healthcare providers. The self-paced courses cover topics including healthcare program management and leadership, nutrition, maternal and […]
Catholic Sisters Week Recap: Championing Sisters at the UN!
Leave your thoughtsEarlier this month, SRW CEO Sr. Irene O’Neill visited New York City for Catholic Sisters Week. Alongside PeaceRoom Coordinator Beth Blissman, Sr. Irene attended the Commission on the Status of Women at the United Nations World Headquarters. They met with leaders and changemakers from across the world to amplify SRW’s mission and the voices of […]
Crisis Alert: Goma City Assault
Leave your thoughtsIn late January, rebel group M23 violently seized control of Goma, a city located on the Rwandan border in the Democratic Republic of Congo. Several weeks later, locals are still grappling with the devastating consequences of the brutal assault. Sr. Matilda Dungdung, from the Ursuline Sisters of Tildonk, provided Sisters Rising Worldwide with an account […]
Donor Spotlight & Exciting Announcement: Flaherty Family Foundation
Leave your thoughtsWe are beyond excited to share this incredible news with you: The Flaherty Family Foundation has committed a transformational $1 million matching gift to help Sisters Rising Worldwide scale our model, empowering more Sisters to make an impact where the world needs them most. This extraordinary gift is designed to broaden Sisters Rising Worldwide’s supporter […]
Medicinal Gardens Blossom in Assam, India
Leave your thoughtsAs part of a year-long project to improve quality of life and access to education for women and children in local villages, Sisters from Assam, India organized a one day training on nutritional and medicinal gardening to benefit their local communities. Funded by an SRW grant, the training offered insights on the value of nutritional […]