Empowering the Vulnerable and Stigmatized
By Joyce de Gooijer
Director, Volunteer International Christian Service

This year VICS was thrilled to start a new partnership in Uganda with the Congregation of the Sisters of Charity of the Good Shepherd.

Spiritan priests at Mulango Parish, Kampala, had asked the Sisters to find and work with vulnerable people living on the margins.

Sister Bibian and Sister Jennifer went to the most obvious place in their parish - the Katanga slum. There, they found many women whose only hope for income was prostitution.

Slowly, a relationship was bult, and the women started sharing their struggles and dreams. The Mirembe Women's Project was born. Read the full article here. 

This article originally appeared in the Summer 2019 issue of Spiritan, a publication of the Spiritans, TransCanada Province.)