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Mary Kevin Kearny, OSF, CBE (born Teresa Kearney; 28 April 1875 – 17 October 1957) was a teacher, Franciscan Sister, and missionary, who founded a new Franciscan order. Born in Arklow, Ireland on April 28, 1875, [ 1 ] she became a Junior Assistant Mistress at 17 and taught in Essex, England. [ 2 ]
Sister Mary Kevin aka (Mother Kevina, Mama Kevina) was a Hill Mill missionary who arrived on 15 January 1903. She encouraged many Ugandan women to get baptised. She founded the Little sisters of St. Francis Nkokonjeru in Kyagwe in Mukono District in 1923.
Kate Bulkeley's pledge to stay off social media in high school worked at first. Gabriela Durham, a high school senior in Brooklyn, says navigating high school without social media has made her who ...
Katie Davis Majors is an American missionary and author who established a mission in Jinja, Uganda in 2007. [2] Her work led to the founding of a school and provision of other services in Jinja, which now operate under the auspices of the Tennessee-based not-for-profit, Amazima Ministries International (AMI).
The first White Sisters reached the new formed British protectorate of Uganda in 1899. Some of the White Sisters had first spent time with the Missionary Sisters of Our Lady of Apostles in Ardfoyle, Cork, Ireland, to learn English. [16] In 1902, the White Sisters began work in Buddu, Uganda, led by Mother Mechtilde. By 1907, the mission had 140 ...
While superior at Tours, Mary Euphrasia formed a contemplative nuns group, named the Magdalen Sisters (based in a devotion to Mary Magdalene's conversion), now known as the Contemplative Communities of the Sisters of the Good Shepherd, for penitent women who wished to live a cloistered life, but were ineligible to become Sisters of Our Lady of Charity. [7]
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Vivian Glyck founded the Just Like My Child Foundation in July 2006 after a trip to Africa in May 2006 where she met Sister Ernestine Akulu. [3] Upon arriving home, she decided she wanted to help the women and children of East Africa. Glyck asked Sister Ernestine of the Bishop Asili Hospital in Luwero, Uganda how she could help.