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***Campaign Update: We have just passed the $1,000 mark with donations to Sister Remya’s campaign for India! Thank you for all your support as we head to our goal of $2,500! Sister Remya Thomas of St. Joseph’s Sevasadan Community College in Odisha, India, recently reached out to us with an immediate need to help support […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
As we head into the season of gratitude and giving, we are excited to announce that one of our donors has offered to match up to $5,000 of all SRW donations between now and the end of the year. The focus of our holiday giving campaign is to raise funds for Dawn’s Place. Click here […]
We continue to get wonderful updates from our recent fully-funded program in Visakhapatnam, India. Thanks to our donors, Sister Anitha and her team were able to purchase a van that provides girls at their school with a safe transportation option to get them to higher-level internships, allowing them to avoid human-trafficking as they prepare for careers […]