SISTER PAUL  CLOETE  CELEBRATES  50  YEARS  AS  A  CABRA  DOMINICAN  SISTER  AND  RECALLS  TREASURED  MEMORIES  OF  HER  MOTHER,  FAMILY  AND  RELIGIOUS  LIFE. 

To mark the occasion she agreed to give an interview about her life to Sr Renée Rossouw. 
The following are some extracts from the interview:

The impact of HIV and AIDS on children, extended families and communities is devastating.

Sister Francis Krige is part of a team, working with the South African Bishops' Conference, which tries to bring about change in the lives of children whose parents have died.

The team has piloted an "After School Care Programme" in four places. 

Dear Web Viewer

In this section of the website - Real Life Encounter - we would like to introduce you to some of the communities that make up our congregation. At different times we will focus on a particular community or on a particular sister and hope to offer some insight into who we are, how we live and what we do.

The Machiguengas are a tribe that is close to extinction, that lives in the Peruvian Amazonian area, spread out in the jungles in small family groups. The tribe has a personage called a Narrator, who carries news from one family to another and is like a guardian of the memory of the people; through him, the Machiguengas learn about each other….

Today I feel like one of these Narrators, I will tell you a “story”…